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Frontiers in Optics

Dual-delay Phase-unlocked Hong-Ou-Mandel Interferometry

Ayman F. Abouraddy, Timothy M. Yarnall, Giovanni Di Giuseppe

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a novel dual-delay two-photon interferometer that allows spanning the two-dimensional spectrum of two-photon states by ‘unlocking’ the fixed phase relationship between the interfering probability amplitudes in a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2013.ftu1c.5

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