The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect in the context of few-photon scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 12326-12340

  Longo, Paolo ^a   Cole, Jared H ^b   Busch, Kurt ^c,d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVEGUIDES;

DEPHASING; INTERFEROMETRY TECHNIQUE; JOINT PROBABILITY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTON-PHOTON INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM JUMPS; SCATTERING PROBLEMS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TWO PHOTON; TWO-LEVEL ATOM;

SCATTERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84861508053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012326     Document Type: Article

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