Coherent splitting of single photons by an ideal beam splitter
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 53 (6) , 3756-3760
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.53.3756
Abstract
It is shown that an ideal beam splitter has a small probability of splitting a single photon into a pair of secondary photons, conserving energy in the process. These nonlinear effects are a fundamental consequence of the quantization of the field and are analogous to other nonlinear effects in QED, such as the scattering of one photon by another. © 1996 The American Physical Society.Keywords
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