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Two-photon Interference with Non-identical Photons

Optics 2017-03-02 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

The indistinguishability of non-identical photons is dependent on detection system in quantum physics. If two photons with different wavelengths are indistinguishable for a detection system, there can be two-photon interference when these two photons are incident to two input ports of a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer, respectively. The reason why two-photon interference phenomena are different for classical and nonclassical light is not due to interference, but due to the properties of light and detection system. These conclusions are helpful to understand the physics and applications of two-photon interference.

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@article{arxiv.1412.2308,
  title  = {Two-photon Interference with Non-identical Photons},
  author = {Jianbin Liu and Yu Zhou and Huaibin Zheng and Hui Chen and Fu-Li Li and Zhuo Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2308},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures. Comments are welcome

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