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The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting

Quantum Optics Teaching Laboratory

Svetlana G. Lukishova, Anand K. Jha, Nickolaos Savidis, Sean White, Luke J. Bissell, Laura E. Elgin, Carlos R. Stroud

Published Jan 1, 2007• 3 citations
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Abstract

Quantum optics teaching laboratory consists of four experiments for undergraduates: (1) entanglement and Bell’s inequalities, (2) single-photon interference, (3) confocal microscope imaging of single-emitter fluorescence, (4) Hanbury Brown and Twiss setup. Fluorescence antibunching.
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2007.jwc8

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