Saturday, June 21, 2014

resource recommendations - Source for Interferometer experiments with single photons



The Phys.SE question Single Photon Single Slit Interferometry is about the results of such experiments. What I’m interested is to read about interferometer experiments with single shooted photons. Who carried out such experiments?



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While it is not very comprehensive, John Townsend gives some basic references in the first chapter of his spiffy book Quantum Physics A fundamental approach to modern physics. (The first chapter examines a simplified quantum model of light remenicient of Feynman's pop-sci book on QED.)





  • Demonstrating that reliable single photon counting is possible P. Grangier, G. Roger, and A. Aspect, Europhys. Lett. 1, 173 (1986)




  • Basic Mach-Zender interferometry with single photons A. Aspect, P. Grangier, and G. Roger. J. Optics (Paris) 20, 119 (1989)




  • Delayed choice in a Mach_Zender interferometer V. Jacques, E. Wu, et. al Science, 315 988 (2007)





(The bold type is my interpretation of the reason the papers are referenced rather than titles, BTW.)


That is pretty sparse but it represents a starting point for a more comprehensive literature search.


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