Interferometric optical path measurement of a glass wedge with single photons and biphotons
Kay Schmid, H. Becker, Wolfgang Dultz, W. Martienssen, Michael Kempe, Heidrun Schmitzer · Optics Letters · 2007
We have measured the phase structure of a glass wedge with single photons and biphotons in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using parametric downconverted light from a Hong-Ou-Mandel particle interferometer as the source. By scanning the wedge through the focus of a microscope objective we find a doubling of the period of the interference pattern in the coincidence counts for biphotons compared to the single-photon experiment. We compare our measurement setup with classical ones and discuss some of the problems of superresolution in quantum lithography.