Interferometric measurement of the biphoton wave function

Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Oct 31;113(18):183602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.183602. Epub 2014 Oct 31.

Abstract

Interference between an unknown two-photon state (a "biphoton") and the two-photon component of a reference state gives a phase-sensitive arrival-time distribution containing full information about the biphoton temporal wave function. Using a coherent state as a reference, we observe this interference and reconstruct the wave function of single-mode biphotons from a low-intensity narrow band squeezed vacuum state.