In a paper published in Nature Photonics, the research team from the Center for Quantum Information and Communication – Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles of Université libre de Bruxelles, has found an ...

Optical interference is not only a fundamental phenomenon that has enabled new theories of light to be derived, but it has also been used in interferometry for the measurement of small displacements, ...

Bosons -- especially photons -- have a natural tendency to clump together. In 1987, physicists conducted a remarkable experiment demonstrating this clustering property, known as the Hong-Ou-Mandel ...

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