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Bi-photon de Broglie Wavelength



Measuring the wavelength of an entangled pair of photons (red circles) made inside a potassium-niobium (KN) crystal by parametric down conversion of an incoming photon (blue circle). After encountering an initial beam splitter (BS1), the red photons move together along either path 1 or path 2, whose lengths can be adjusted (delta L). Along they way they encounter other beam splitters, and finally pass through interference filters (IF) and enter avalanched photodiodes (APD). (Courtesy Osaka University)

Reported by: Edamatsu et al., Physical Review Letters, 18 November 2002.

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