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In quantum mechanics, photons are bosons -- there is no restriction on the number of them that occupy the same quantum state, so many of them can bunch together, and this is well known as photon bunching effect. However, photon bunching and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Dianwen Zhang

Two-photon interference with independent classical sources, in which superposition of two indistinguishable two-photon paths plays a key role, is of limited visibility of interference fringes with a maximum value of 50%. By using a…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Peilong Hong , Lei Xu , Zhaohui Zhai , Guoquan Zhang

Over the last 50 years entangled photon pairs have received attention for use in lowering the flux in two-photon absorption imaging and spectroscopy. Despite this, evidence for entangled two-photon absorption (ETPA) effects remain highly…

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-11 De-Jian Zhang , Shuang Wu , Hong-Guo Li , Hai-Bo Wang , Jun Xiong , Kaige Wang

We report an experiment to test quantum interference, entanglement and nonlocality using two dissimilar photon sources, the Sun and a semiconductor quantum dot on the Earth, which are separated by 150 million kilometers. By making the…

We present the first experimental demonstration of ghost imaging realized with intense beams generated by a parametric downconversion interaction seeded with pseudo-thermal light. As expected, the real image of the object is reconstructed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Puddu , A. Andreoni , I. P. Degiovanni , M. Bondani , S. Castelletto

We report an experiment in which two-photon interference occurs between degenerate single photons that never meet. The two photons travel in opposite directions through our fibre-optic interferometer and interference occurs when the photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-11 A. J. Bennett , D. G. Gevaux , Z. L. Yuan , A. J. Shields , P. Atkinson , D. A. Ritchie

High visibility temporal ghost imaging with classical light is possible when superbunching pseudothermal light is employed. In the numerical simulation, the visibility of temporal ghost imaging with pseudothermal light equaling ($4.7\pm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 Jianbin Liu , Jingjing Wang , Hui Chen , Huaibin Zheng , Yanyan Liu , Yu Zhou , Fu-li Li , Zhuo Xu

We demonstrate optical interferometry beyond the limits imposed by the photon wavelength using 'triggered' entangled photon pairs from a semiconductor quantum dot. Interference fringes of the entangled biphoton state reveals a periodicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-28 R. M. Stevenson , A. J. Hudson , R. J. Young , P. Atkinson , K. Cooper , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

In this Letter we propose a fundamental test for probing the thermal nature of the spectrum emitted by sonoluminescence. We show that two-photon correlations can in principle discriminate between real thermal light and the quasi-thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Francesco Belgiorno , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser , Dennis Sciama

We present a general theory to describe two-photon interference, including a formal description of few photon intereference in terms of single-photon amplitudes. With this formalism, it is possible to describe both frequency entangled and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. G. Lapaire , J. E. Sipe

A thermal ghost imaging scheme between two distant parties is proposed and experimentally demonstrated over long-distance optical fibers. In the scheme, the weak thermal light is split into two paths. Photons in one path are spatially…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-14 Xin Yao , Wei Zhang , Hao Li , Lixing You , Zhen Wang , Yidong Huang

The 'Ghost' interference experiment is analyzed when the source of entangled photons is a multimode Optical Parametric Amplifier(OPA) whose weak limit is the two-photon Spontaneous Parametric Downconversion(SPDC) beam. The visibility of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sulakshana Thanvanthri , Morton H. Rubin

Properties of entangled photon pairs generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion are investigated in interference experiments. Strong energy correlations are demonstrated in a direct way. If a signal photon is detected behind a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Jan Soubusta , Jan Perina , Martin Hendrych , Ondrej Haderka , Pavel Trojek , Miloslav Dusek

This experiment reports a nontrivial third-order temporal correlation of chaotic-thermal light in which the randomly radiated thermal light is observed to have a 6-times greater chance of being captured by three individual photodetectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Yu Zhou , Jianbin Liu , Yanhua Shih

Two-photon interference of multimode two-photon pairs produced by an optical parametric oscillator has been observed for the first time with an unbalanced interferometer. The time correlation between the multimode two photons has a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hayato Goto , Haibo Wang , Tomoyuki Horikiri , Yasuo Yanagihara , Takayoshi Kobayashi

In the recent experiment, the phenomena of superluminal and slow-light propagation in dispersive medium were found, and there are various explanation in theory. We find the phenomenon can be explained by multiple-photon interaction.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiangyao Wu , Pi-Feng Gong , Zhi-Yong Yi , Chang-Rui Wu , Xiao-Yan Gu , Zong-Hua Shi

It is shown that the visibility of multi-photon interference for classical sources grows rapidly with the order of interference. For three-photon and four-photon interference of two coherent sources, the visibility can be as high as 81.9%…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. N. Agafonov , M. V. Chekhova , T. Sh. Iskhakov , A. N. Penin

Coincidence imaging, also known as ghost imaging, is a technique that exploits correlations between two particles to reconstruct information about a specimen. The particle that relays the spatial information about the object remains…

Some modified two-slit interference experiments were carried out showing an apparent paradox in wave-particle duality. In a typical such experiment, the screen, where the interference pattern is supposed to be formed, is replaced by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Tabish Qureshi