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Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference is demonstrated experimentally for entangled photon pairs in the Hermite-Gauss (HG) basis. We use two Dove prisms in one of the paths of the photons to manipulate the entangled quantum state that enters the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yingwen Zhang , Filippus S. Roux , Ebrahim Karimi , Andrew Forbes

The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect provides a mechanism to determine the distinguishability of a photon pair by measuring the bunching rates of two photons interfering at a beam splitter. Of particular interest is the distinguishability in time,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Hannah Scott , Dominic Branford , Niclas Westerberg , Jonathan Leach , Erik M. Gauger

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) dip plays an important role in recent linear optics experiments. It is crucial for quantum computing with photons and can be used to characterise the quality of single photon sources and linear optics setups. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuan Liang Lim , Almut Beige

Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interferometry with entangled photons exhibits distinctive quantum features. By introducing frequency entanglement (discrete-color entangled states) into HOM interference, the characteristic HOM dip is modulated by…

Interference at a beam splitter reveals both classical and quantum properties of electromagnetic radiation. When two indistinguishable single photons impinge at the two inputs of a beam splitter they coalesce into a pair of photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 C. Lang , C. Eichler , L. Steffen , J. M. Fink , M. J. Woolley , A. Blais , A. Wallraff

The phenomenon of entanglement is the basis of quantum information and quantum communication processes. Entangled systems with a large number of photons are of great interest at present because they provide a platform for streaming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 A. Ferreri , V. Ansari , B. Brecht , C. Silberhorn , P. R. Sharapova

Two-photon interference, known as the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, has colossal implications for quantum technology. It was observed in 1987 with two photodetectors monitoring outputs of the beamsplitter illuminated by photon pairs: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Anton N. Vetlugin , Ruixiang Guo , Cesare Soci , Nikolay I. Zheludev

The Hong--Ou--Mandel (HOM) effect is often introduced through a single benchmark: coincidence suppression for \(\ket{1}\otimes\ket{1}\) at a balanced beam splitter. We present a classroom-oriented instructional module that broadens this…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-05-28 Melissa Coronado Arrieta , Boris Kiefer

Quantum Information Processing, from cryptography to computation, based upon linear quantum optical circuit elements relies heavily on the ability offered by the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) Effect to route photons from separate input modes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Edwin E. Hach , Stefan F. Preble , Ali W. Elshaari , Paul M. Alsing , Michael L. Fanto

The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect lies at the heart of quantum interferometry, having multiple applications in the field of quantum information processing and no classical counterpart. Despite its popularity, only a few works have considered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Olli Siltanen , Tom Kuusela , Jyrki Piilo

We propose a scheme achieving the ultimate quantum precision for the estimation of the transverse displacement between two interfering photons. Such a transverse displacement could be caused, for example, by the refracting properties of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Danilo Triggiani , Vincenzo Tamma

The Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer is a foundational tool in quantum optics, with both fundamental and practical significance. Earlier works identified that input-state symmetry under exchange of the two spatial modes is fundamental in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Éloi Descamps , Arne Keller , Pérola Milman

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect is a quintessential process in various quantum information technologies and quantum optics applications. In this work, we investigate multi-photon interference, developing a model for the simultaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Noah Crum , Md Mehdi Hassan , Adrien Green , George Siopsis

We develop a fully spatio-temporal numerical model, based on stochastic simulations, simulating the generation of spatio-temporal multimode spontaneous parametric down conversion, the propagation of the signal and idler beams through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Fabrice Devaux , Alexis Mosset , Eric Lantz

Superposition and indistinguishablility between probability amplitudes have played an essential role in observing quantum interference effects of correlated photons. The Hong-Ou-Mandel interference and interferences of the path-entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Heonoh Kim , Sang Min Lee , Han Seb Moon

To realize a quantum network based on quantum entanglement swapping, bright and completely autonomous sources are essentially required. Here, we experimentally demonstrate Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) quantum interference between two independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Teak Jeong , Yoon-Seok Lee , Jiho Park , Heonoh Kim , Han Seb Moon

The Hong-Ou-Mandel interference effect lies at the heart of many emerging quantum technologies whose performance can be significantly enhanced with increasing numbers of entangled modes one could measure and thus utilize. Photon pairs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Xiaoqin Gao , Yingwen Zhang , Alessio D'Errico , Khabat Heshami , Ebrahim Karimi

Optical vector modes (VMs), characterized by spatially varying polarization distributions, have become essential tools across microscopy, metrology, optical trapping, nanophotonics, and optical communications. The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Xiaoqin Gao , Dilip Paneru , Francesco Di Colandrea , Yingwen Zhang , Ebrahim Karimi

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 expand the two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect onto a higher-dimensional set of spatial modes and introduce an effect that allows controllable redistribution of quantum states over these modes using directionally unbiased…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Shuto Osawa , David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko