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A Photonic System for Generating Unconditional Polarization-Entangled Photons Based on Multiple Quantum Interference
Published on: September 5, 2019
Observation of a generalized bunching effect of six photons
Xiao-Ling Niu1, Yan-Xiao Gong, Bi-Heng Liu
1Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230026, China.
Abstract:
When photons are indistinguishably in the same temporal mode, their detection probability is greatly enhanced due to constructive multiphoton interference, as compared to the case when they are distinguishable. We observed for what is believed to be the first time such a photon bunching effect for six photons. The observed enhancement factor in six-photon coincidence measurement is 17+/-2, which is close to a factor of 20 for an ideal case. Our result confirms that the six photons that we obtain have a high degree of indistinguishability.
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