2 photons interference in twin images
F. Devaux, A. Mosset, Éric Lantz · 2021
Among the whole experiments using entangled pairs of photons, the famous experiment of two-photon interference known now as Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference, is probably one of the most fascinating. This ground-breaking experiment paved the way for a multitude of experiments showing the richness of the quantum properties of Spontaneous Parametric Down conversion (SPDC) and their applications to original communication protocols. Most of them use the coherence time property of a bi-photon state and measurement are mainly performed with bucket detectors and coincidence counters. While some studies report the spatial coherence of two-photon state, measurements are always performed in the temporal domain.