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Frontiers in Optics

A Quantum Optics Laboratory for Teaching Quantum Mechanics

Enrique J. Galvez

Published Jan 1, 2008• 0 citations
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Abstract

We have implemented quantum optics experiments with correlated-photons as labs for an undergraduate course on quantum mechanics. The experiments can be explained with the quantum mechanical algebra of a single quantum of light.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2008.sthd1

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