Spectrally resolved two-photon interference in a modified Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer

A modified Hong--Ou--Mandel (HOM) interference reveals that the two-photon interference phenomenon can be explained only by the concept of a two-photon wave packet rather than a single-photon one. However, the temporal interferogram in the modified HOM interferometer becomes flat in some cases so th...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Li, Baihong, Yuan, Boxin, Chen, Changhua, Xiao Xiang, Quan, Runai, Dong, Ruifang, Zhang, Shougang, Rui-Bo, Jin
Format Paper Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 15.12.2022
Subjects
Interference
Interferometers
Photons
Physics - Quantum Physics
Time domain analysis
Time lag
Wave packets
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Summary:A modified Hong--Ou--Mandel (HOM) interference reveals that the two-photon interference phenomenon can be explained only by the concept of a two-photon wave packet rather than a single-photon one. However, the temporal interferogram in the modified HOM interferometer becomes flat in some cases so that no useful information can be extracted from time-domain measurement. Here, we theoretically explore such temporal interferogram from the frequency domain and obtain the spectrally resolved interference with high visibility. The result represents a modulation of the joint spectral intensity along both the frequency sum and the frequency difference directions. This is quite different from the cases of the spectrally resolved HOM interference and N00N state interference where the modulations happened only in one direction. Moreover, we have shown that such modulations have a potential application in the generation and characterization of high-dimensional frequency entanglement.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2205.11135