Conditional probabilities for a single photon at a beam splitter
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- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 54 (5) , R3738-R3741
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.54.r3738
Abstract
Eight-port homodyne detection may be used to perform a joint measurement on a single-mode input to a beam splitter; the quadrature is measured at one output port, and the quadrature is measured at the other. This is possible even when the input mode contains only one photon. We show to what extent this "joint measurement of a single photon" may be reconciled with the semiclassical notion that the photon may only exit from one of the beam splitter output ports.
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