Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2018, 11 (2): 148–154, 网络出版: 2018-10-07
Franson interferometry with a single pulse
Franson interferometry with a single pulse
摘要
Abstract
In classical optics, interference occurs between two optical fields when they are indistinguishable from one another. The same holds true in quantum optics, where a particular experiment, the Franson interferometer, involves the interference of a photon pair with a time-delayed version of itself. The canonical version of this interferometer requires that the time delay be much shorter than the coherence length of the pump used to generate the photon pair, so as to guarantee indistinguishability. However, when this time delay is comparable to the coherence length, conventional wisdom suggests that interference visibility degrades significantly. In this work, though, we show that the interference visibility can be restored through judicious temporal post-selection. Utilizing correlated photon pairs generated by a pump whose pulsewidth (460 ps) is shorter than the interferometer’s time delay (500 ps), we are able to observe a fringe visibility of 97.44.3%. We believe this new method can be used for the encoding of high-dimensional quantum information in the temporal domain.1)
, , , , . Franson interferometry with a single pulse[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2018, 11(2): 148–154. Eric Y., Costantino CORBARI, Alexey V., Peter G., Li QIAN. Franson interferometry with a single pulse[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2018, 11(2): 148–154.