Accessing the purity of a single photon by the width of the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cassemiro, Katiúscia N ^a   Laiho, Kaisa ^a   Silberhorn, Christine ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT FIELDS; HONG-OU-MANDEL INTERFERENCES; MODE MATCHING; QUANTUM COHERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON STATE; SINGLE PHOTONS; SPECTRAL PURITY; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TEMPORAL WIDTH;

FIBER OPTICS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 78650109912     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/113052     Document Type: Article

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