Multimode Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference

2002/12/03 by S. P. Walborn, Antônio Nonato de Oliveira, A. N. de Oliveira +2 · 6 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.90.143601

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 143601 (2003). · 4 pages, 6 figures, submitted to PRL

arxiv created 2002/12/03 · openalex publication_date 2003/04/08 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We consider multimode two-photon interference at a beam splitter by photons created by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The resulting interference pattern is shown to depend upon the transverse spatial symmetry of the pump beam. In an experiment, we employ the first-order Hermite-Gaussian modes in order to show that, by manipulating the pump beam, one can control the resulting two-photon interference behavior. We expect these results to play an important role in the engineering of quantum states of light for use in quantum information processing and quantum imaging.

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