| Issue |
EPL
Volume 85, Number 1, January 2009
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|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 14001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/85/14001 | |
| Published online | 07 January 2009 | |
A new analysis of multi-photon interference
Key Laboratory of Quantum Information University of Science and Technology of China, CAS - Hefei, 230026, PRC
Corresponding author: cfli@ustc.edu.cn
Received:
10
July
2008
Accepted:
25
November
2008
We consider photons as wave packets in time domain and analyze the
Hong-Ou-Mandel
type interferences in different conditions. The general analytic
formula of the 
-photon interference
is deduced. It is shown that the widths of the time interval distributions of the
-fold coincidence are proportional to the widths of the photon wave packets and inversely proportional to 
. Good agreement between
previous experimental results and our theory for 2- and 4-photon interferences confirms
the validity of this method. The method is also generalized to multi-beam interference and
some new phenomena compared with two-beam interference are obtained.
PACS: 42.50.-p – Quantum optics / 03.67.-a – Quantum information
© EPLA, 2009
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