Mach-Zehnder interferometer for a two-photon wave packet

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 023801-023801

  Ryff, Luiz Carlos ^a   Souto Ribeiro, P H ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PULSES; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; TWO-PHOTON WAVE-PACKET INTERFERENCE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 14344274942     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.023801     Document Type: Article

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