Xiang GY, Huang YF, Sun FW, Zhang P, Ou ZY, Guo GC. Demonstration of temporal distinguishability in a four-photon state and a six-photon state.
Phys Rev Lett 2006;
97:023604. [PMID:
16907443 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.97.023604]
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Abstract
An experiment is performed to demonstrate the temporal distinguishability of a four-photon state and a six-photon state, both from parametric down-conversion. The experiment is based on a multiphoton interference scheme in a recently discovered projection measurement of a maximally entangled N-photon state. By measuring the visibility of the interference dip, we can distinguish the various scenarios in the temporal distribution of the pairs and, thus, quantitatively determine the degree of temporal distinguishability of a multiphoton state.
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