What we can learn about single photons in a two-photon interference experiment
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 57 (1) , 567-570
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.57.567
Abstract
We report a two-photon interference experiment in which a single-photon wave-packet concept fails to give a correct prediction, but the two-photon wave-packet, or biphoton, concept is helpful. Based on our experiment, we argue that single-photon wave-packet information available from two-photon measurement is limited.Keywords
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