Hong-Ou-Mandel Effect between a Thermal Field and a Heralded Single-photon State

Improved visibility by Multiphoton Components

authored by

Anahita Khodadad Kashi, Lucia Caspani, Michael Kues

Abstract

The heralding technique has been widely deployed as a statistical approach to approximate deterministic single-photon states from the spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) process. As necessary for the two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect, the single frequency mode preparation of heralded single-photon states - which can be achieved by removing frequency correlations - introduces thermal characteristics to the heralded state, whose impact on the HOM visibility has not been explicitly studied so far.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Photonics
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines

External Organisation(s)

University of Strathclyde

Type

Conference contribution

No. of pages

1

Publication date

2023

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10231575 (Access: Closed)