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Europhysics Letters (EPL)

A Beam Splitting Experiment with Correlated Photons

Jurgen Brendel, S. Schütrumpf, R Lange, W. Martienssen, Marlan O. Scully

Published Feb 1, 1988• 31 citations
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Abstract

We perform an optical beam splitting experiment, using a light field, in which the photons arrive in pairs. It is proven that the distribution of photons in the reflected and transmitted beam obeys a binomial distribution.
DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/5/3/007

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