Abstract
A new scheme with very simple implementations giving obvious experimental results has been demonstrated to reveal the particle and wave duality of light. The scheme demonspates the wave property of light by coherent superposition and the particle property of light by random path selection though a 50/50 beam splitter. Preliminary experiments showed high interference visibility of 99% and the particle nature of light as high as 90% by using a highly attenuated pulsed laser as a single photon source. This scheme displays both the wave and particle nature of light though a simple experimental setup, which makes it a quite promising schem for revealing the property of light.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 75-79 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2010 |
Keywords
- Coincidence measurement
- Sagnac interferometer
- Single photon source
- Wave-particle duality