Temporal indistinguishability and quantum interference

Kim, YH; Berardi, V; Chekhova, MV; Garuccio, A; Shih, Y

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.62.043820

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT

Add to Basket

Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released

Journal Article

Temporal indistinguishability and quantum interference

MPS-Authors

There are no MPG-Authors in the publication available

External Resource

No external resources are shared

Fulltext (restricted access)

There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.

Fulltext (public)

There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe

Supplementary Material (public)

There is no public supplementary material available

Citation

Kim, Y., Berardi, V., Chekhova, M., Garuccio, A., & Shih, Y. (2000). Temporal indistinguishability and quantum interference. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 62(4): 043820. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.62.043820.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-DF96-B

Abstract

A chi((2)) nonlinear optical crystal is pumped by two temporally well-distinguishable femtosecond laser pulses to generate entangled photon pairs in the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion. We have observed first- and second-order interference between amplitudes generated from the first and the second pump pulse as a function of the time delay between the two pump pulses. The criteria for first- and second-order interference are found to be very different, which reflect the quantum entanglement nature of the state of spontaneous parametric down-conversion.