Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference
Agata M. Bra\'nczyk
TL;DR
This paper provides a comprehensive introduction to Hong-Ou-Mandel interference, analyzing how photon distinguishability in polarization and spectral properties affects the interference pattern, with explicit calculations for various photon states.
Contribution
It offers detailed methods to calculate HOM interference effects for different spectral and polarization photon states, including entangled and mixed spectra.
Findings
HOM interference depends on photon distinguishability in polarization and spectral domains.
Explicit formulas for HOM dips with arbitrary, entangled, and mixed spectral states.
Analysis of how spectral entanglement influences photon interference patterns.
Abstract
This article is a detailed introduction to Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference, in which two photons interfere on a beamsplitter in a way that depends on the photons' distinguishability. We begin by considering distinguishability in the polarization degree of freedom. We then consider spectral distinguishability, and show explicitly how to calculate the HOM dip for three interesting cases: 1) photons with arbitrary spectral distributions, 2) spectrally entangled photons, and 3) spectrally mixed photons.
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TopicsMobile Agent-Based Network Management · Network Traffic and Congestion Control