Young’s double-slit interference with two-color biphotons

In classical optics, Young’s double-slit experiment with colored coherent light gives rise to individual interference fringes for each light frequency, referring to single-photon interference. However, two-photon double-slit interference has been widely studied only for wavelength-degenerate biphoto...

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Veröffentlicht in:Scientific reports 2017-12, Vol.7 (1), p.17372-7, Article 17372
Hauptverfasser: Zhang, De-Jian, Wu, Shuang, Li, Hong-Guo, Wang, Hai-Bo, Xiong, Jun, Wang, Kaige
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Zusammenfassung:In classical optics, Young’s double-slit experiment with colored coherent light gives rise to individual interference fringes for each light frequency, referring to single-photon interference. However, two-photon double-slit interference has been widely studied only for wavelength-degenerate biphoton, known as subwavelength quantum lithography. In this work, we report double-slit interference experiments with two-color biphoton. Different from the degenerate case, the experimental results depend on the measurement methods. From a two-axis coincidence measurement pattern we can extract complete interference information about two colors. The conceptual model provides an intuitional picture of the in-phase and out-of-phase photon correlations and a complete quantum understanding about the which-path information of two colored photons.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-17827-8