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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 43: Poster II

Q 43.72: Poster

Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 16:00–18:30, Empore Lichthof

Multi-photon interference with pseudo-thermal light — •Florian Nägele, Simeon Müller, and Vincenzo Tamma — Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm

Multi-photon interference [1] with pseudo-thermal light is a promising new field of research that received increasing attention in recent years. Chen et al. have simulated Bell correlations and Franson-type correlations with a pseudo-thermal source [2,3]. We give a detailed theoretical description of such experiments, in order to describe the main physical aspects behind two-photon interference. Moreover, we generalize such a description to different experimental situations. Our analysis will lead us to the study of multi-photon interferometers of higher orders and the possibilities to exploit such schemes for quantum information processing.

[1] Yanhua Shih, An Introduction to Quantum Optics: Photon and Biphoton Physics, Taylor and Francis (2011), Boca Raton, FL

[2] H. Chen, et al., New J. Phys. 13, 083018 (2011)

[3] H. Chen, et al., private communication