Interference and the lossless lossy beam splitter

John Jeffers

doi:10.1080/09500340008232434

Interference and the lossless lossy beam splitter

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v1

Authors: John Jeffers

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Abstract

By directing the input light into a particular mode it is possible to obtain as output all of the input light for a beam splitter that is 50% absorbing. This effect is also responsible for nonlinear quantum interference when two photons are incident on the beam splitter.

Keywords

quantum optics quantum photonics kerr nonlinearity

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0007025,
  title  = {Interference and the lossless lossy beam splitter},
  author = {John Jeffers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0007025},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures, to appear in J. Mod. Opt

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