Open AccessYoung's double-slit experiment with single photons and quantum eraser
Author(s) -
Wolfgang Rueckner,
Joseph Peidle
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.541
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1943-2909
pISSN - 0002-9505
DOI - 10.1119/1.4819882
Subject(s) - physics , double slit experiment , photon , interference (communication) , optics , quantum optics , quantum , quantum mechanics , telecommunications , channel (broadcasting) , computer science
An apparatus for a double-slit interference experiment in the single-photon regime is described. The apparatus includes a which-path marker that destroys the interference as well as a quantum eraser that restores it. We present data taken with several light sources, coherent and incoherent and discuss the efficacy of these as sources of single photons.
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