Mode Distinguishability in Multi-photon Interference
ORAL
Abstract
The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect is a quintessential process in various quantum information technologies and quantum optics applications. In this work, we investigate multi-photon interference, developing a model for the simultaneous characterization of polarization and spectro-temporal mode mismatch on the coincidence probabilities including the effects of realistic imperfections of devices used in HOM experiments. We also study the coincidence probability for coherent states as a function of source intensity, as well as spectro-temporal and polarization mismatch of the incident beams. We apply our model to the case of multi-photon interference from independent sources and analyze the consequences of mode mismatch in various instances that occur in quantum networking such as entanglement swapping and quantum key distribution (QKD).
*This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, through the Quantum Internet to Accelerate Scientific Discovery Program under Field Work Proposal 3ERKJ381. We also acknowledge support by the National Science Foundation under award DGE-2152168.
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Presenters
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Noah A Crum
- University of Tennessee