Single-photon wavefront-splitting interference

Jacques, Vincent; Wu, E; Toury, Timothée; Treussart, François; Aspect, Alain; Grangier, Philippe; Roch, Jean-François

doi:10.1140/epjd/e2005-00201-y

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“…1, each of the 181 detectors making up the detection area is hit on average by ten thousand photons and the total number of clicks generated by the detectors is 296444. Hence, the ratio of the total number of detected to emitted photons is of the order of 0.16, two orders of magnitude larger than the ratio 0.5 × 10 −3 observed in singlephoton interference experiments [16].…”

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confidence: 67%

“…It is therefore of interest to take a look at the ratio of detected to emitted photons, the overall detection efficiency, and compare the detection counts, observed in the event-based model simulation of the two-beam interference experiment, with those observed in a real experiment with single photons [16]. In the simulation that yields the results of Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Our event-based approach has successfully been used for discrete-event simulations of the single beam splitter and Mach-Zehnder interferometer experiment of Grangier et al [7] (see [8][9][10]), Wheeler's delayed choice experiment of Jacques et al [11] (see [10,12,13]), the quantum eraser experiment of Schwindt et al [14] (see [10,15]), two-beam single-photon interference experiments and the single-photon interference experiment with a Fresnel biprism of Jacques et al [16] (see [10,17]), quantum cryptography protocols (see [18]), the Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment of Agafonov et al [19] (see [10,20]), universal quantum computation (see [21,22]), Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm (EPRB)-type of experiments of Aspect et al [23,24] and Weihs et al [25] (see [5,10,[26][27][28][29][30]), and the propagation of electromagnetic plane waves through homogeneous thin films and stratified media (see [10,31]). An extensive review of the simulation method and its applications is given in [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This idea has been confirmed in various double-slit experiments with massive objects such as electrons [40][41][42][43], neutrons [44,45], atoms [46,47] and molecules such as C 60 and C 70 [48,49], all showing interference. In some of the double-slit experiments [16,41,42] the interference pattern is built up by recording individual clicks of the detectors. According to Feynman, the observation that the interference patterns are built up event-by-event is "impossible, absolutely impossible to explain in any classical way and has in it the heart of quantum mechanics" [50].…”

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Event‐by‐event simulation of quantum phenomena

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Zhao²,

Yuan³

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A discrete‐event simulation approach is reviewed that does not require the knowledge of the solution of the wave equation of the whole system, yet reproduces the statistical distributions of wave theory by generating detection events one‐by‐one. The simulation approach is illustrated by applications to a two‐beam interference experiment and two Bell test experiments, an Einstein‐Podolsky‐Rosen‐Bohm experiment with single photons employing post‐selection for pair identification and a single‐neutron Bell test interferometry experiment with nearly 100 % detection efficiency.

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“…Several different methodologies have been used in coherence studies that have investigated many different types of light sources (including single photon sources) [9][10][11][12]. To date, the Michelson interferometer (MI) has been most widely used in temporal coherence studies because the temporal coherence length can be obtained directly from the decay constant of its interference oscillation amplitude.…”

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Coherence Studies of Photons Emitted from a Single Terrylene Molecule Using Michelson and Young’s Interferometers

Yoon¹,

Trinh²,

Lee³

2015

Journal of the Optical Society of Korea

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Coherence length (time) is a key parameter in many classical and quantum optical applications. Two interferometers -Michelson and Young's double-slit -are used to characterize the temporal coherence of single photons emitted from single terrylene molecules. For quantitative analysis, a dispersion-related distortion in the interference pattern of a Michelson interferometer is carefully corrected by a simple dispersion compensation. Additionally, it has been demonstrated that Young's interferometer can be used in temporal coherence studies at the single photon level with high accuracy. The pros and cons of the two systems are discussed. The measured coherence lengths in the two systems are consistent with one another under the self-interference interpretations.

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Tomography of dark‐field scatter including single‐exposure Moiré fringe analysis with X‐ray biprism interferometry—A simulation study

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In this work we present tomographic simulations of a new hardware concept for X-ray phasecontrast interferometry wherein the phase gratings are replaced with an array of Fresnel bi-prisms, and Moiré fringe analysis is used instead of "phase stepping" popular with grating-based setups.Methods: Projections of a phantom consisting of four layers of parallel carbon microfibers is simulated using wave optics representation of X-ray electromagnetic waves. Simulated projections of a phantom with preferential scatter perpendicular to the direction of the fibers are performed to analyze the extraction of small angle scatter from dark field projections for: 1) bi-prism interferometry using Moiré fringe analysis;2) grating interferometry using phase stepping with 8 grating steps; and 3) grating interferometry using Moiré fringe analysis. Dark field projections are modeled as projections of voxel intensities represented by a fixed finite vector basis set of scattering directions. From the simulated projection data, an iterative MLEM algorithm reconstructs the coefficients of a fixed set of seven basis vectors at each voxel representing the small angle scatter distribution.Results: Results of reconstructed vector coefficients are shown comparing the three simulated imaging models. The single-exposure Moiré fringe analysis shows increase in noise because of 1/8th the number of projection samples but also is obtained with less dose and faster acquisition times. Furthermore, replacing grating interferometry with bi-prism interferometry provides better CNR. Conclusion:The simulations demonstrate the feasibility of the reconstruction of dark-field data acquired with a bi-prism interferometry system. With the potential of higher fringe visibility, bi-prism interferometry with Moiré fringe analysis might provide equal or better image quality to that of phase stepping methods with less imaging time and lower dose.

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Single-photon wavefront-splitting interference

Cited by 71 publications

References 20 publications

Event‐by‐event simulation of quantum phenomena

Event‐by‐event simulation of quantum phenomena

Coherence Studies of Photons Emitted from a Single Terrylene Molecule Using Michelson and Young’s Interferometers

Tomography of dark‐field scatter including single‐exposure Moiré fringe analysis with X‐ray biprism interferometry—A simulation study

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