Title :
Observing photonic de Broglie waves without the NOON state
Author :
Kwon, Osung ; Ra, Young-Sik ; Kim, Yoon-Ho
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technol. (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea
Abstract :
We report the observation of the photonic de Broglie wave for a pair of photons, generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, that are not photon number-path entangled. The experimental and theoretical results suggest that the photonic de Broglie wave is, in fact, not related to the entanglement of the photons, rather it is related to the indistinguishable pathways established by the measurement scheme.
Keywords :
Bandwidth; Detectors; Interference; Optical interferometry; Optical pumping; Photonic crystals; Photonics Society; Physics; Quantum entanglement; Quantum mechanics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
