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The rapid growth of machine learning is increasingly constrained by the energy and bandwidth limits of classical hardware. Optical and quantum technologies offer an alternative route, enabling high-dimensional, parallel information…

Quantum networks involve entanglement sharing between multiple users. Ideally, any two users would be able to connect regardless of the type of photon source they employ, provided they fulfill the requirements for two-photon interference.…

Several photonic quantum technologies rely on the ability to generate multiple indistinguishable photons. Benchmarking the level of indistinguishability of these photons is essential for scalability. The Hong-Ou-Mandel dip provides a…

A number of recent interference experiments involving multiple photons are reviewed. These experiments include generalized photon bunching effects, generalized Hong-Ou-Mandel interference effects and multi-photon interferometry for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Y. Ou

Two-photon interference is a fundamental quantum optics effect with numerous applications in quantum information science. Here, we study two-photon interference in multiple transverse-spatial modes along a single beam-path. Besides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Markus Hiekkamäki , Robert Fickler

We present a quantum optical scheme for imaging transversely displaced thermal sources of arbitrary intensities by employing multiphoton interference with a reference single-photon Fock state at a beamsplitter. Obtaining an analytical form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Aiman Khan , Danilo Triggiani , Vincenzo Tamma

Increasing the complexity of quantum photonic devices is essential for many optical information processing applications to reach a regime beyond what can be classically simulated, and integrated photonics has emerged as a leading platform…

We discuss characterization of single-photon wave packets by measuring Hong-Ou-Mandel interference with a weak coherent pulse. A complete multimode calculation is presented and effects of multiphoton terms in the coherent field as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Piotr Kolenderski , Konrad Banaszek

We present a quantum jump/trajectory analysis of the two-photon interference phenomenon in the context of the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect (HOME). In particular, we consider the standard setup of HOME, which consists of two-photon sources firing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Lexi Dudones , Caden McCollum , Imran M. Mirza

The two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference is a pure quantum effect which indicates the degree of indistinguishability of photons. The four-photon HOM interference exhibits richer dynamics in comparison to the two-photon interference…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-20 A. Ferreri , V. Ansari , C. Silberhorn , P. R. Sharapova

Two-photon interference effects arise because photons are indistinguishable particles. In the wellknown Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect, the transmission of two photons at a beam splitter interferes destructively with the reflection of both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yuki Kodama , Jonte R. Hance , Holger F. Hofmann

In the original formulation of the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) experiment, when two otherwise indistinguishable photons are incident upon the two input ports of a balanced beam splitter, they coalesce, always leaving via the same output port. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Felix Mann , Helen M. Chrzanowski , Marlon Placke , Felipe Gewers , Sven Ramelow

In this work, we demonstrate the on-chip two-photon interference between single photons emitted by a single self-assembled InGaAs quantum dot and an external laser. The quantum dot is embedded within one arm of an air-clad directional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Nikola Prtljaga , Christopher Bentham , John O'Hara , Ben Royall , Edmund Clarke , Luke R Wilson , Maurice S Skolnick , A Mark Fox

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference is one of the most intriguing quantum optical phenomena and crucial in performing quantum optical communication and computation tasks. Lately, twin beam emitters such as those relying on the process of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 K. Laiho , T. Dirmeier , G. Shafiee , Ch. Marquardt

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect, an effective two-photon interference phenomenon, is a cornerstone of quantum optics and a key tool for linear optical quantum information processing. While the HOM effect has been extensively studied both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Tareq Jaouni , Xuemei Gu , Mario Krenn , Alessio D'Errico , Ebrahim Karimi

Multi-particle interference is an essential ingredient for fundamental quantum mechanics phenomena and for quantum information processing to provide a computational advantage, as recently emphasized by Boson Sampling experiments. Hence,…

We demonstrate a method for characterizing the coherence function of coherent states based on two-photon interference. Two states from frequency mismatched faint laser sources are fed into a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer and the…

Photonic quantum technologies enter a new phase when realized in photonic integrated circuits, leading to a great advance in practical applications. In the pursuit of high integration density and low circuit complexity, ultracompact devices…

The geographical position can be a good credential for authentication of a party, this is the basis of position-based cryptography - but classically this cannot be done securely without physical exchange of a private key. However, recently,…

Two-photon interference in a Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometer can be used as a quantum sensing mechanism due to the sensitivity of the interference dip to perturbations of the photon indistinguishability. In particular, recent works have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Carolina Gonçalves , Tiago D. Ferreira , Catarina S. Monteiro , Nuno A. Silva