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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Observation of time-dependent interference in induced-coherence experiments

Timothy P. Grayson, X. Y. Zou, David A. Branning, J. R. Torgerson, L. Mandeļ

Published Jan 1, 1993• 0 citations
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Abstract

In earlier experiments on induced coherence without induced emission1, interference was demonstrated to be closely related to the indistinguishability of the photon path.
DOI
10.1364/oam.1993.thhh.1

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