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The second-order interference of two independent single-mode He-Ne lasers

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arxiv 1410.1993 v1 pith:4X2EOG3Q submitted 2014-10-08 physics.optics quant-ph

The second-order interference of two independent single-mode He-Ne lasers

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keywords interferenceindependentlaserssecond-ordersingle-modeemployedhe-nelaser
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The second-order spatial and temporal interference patterns with two independent single-mode He-Ne lasers are observed in a Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer. Two-photon interference in Feynman's path integral theory is employed to interpret the experimental results. The conditions to observe the second-order interference pattern with two independent single-mode continuous wave lasers are discussed. It is concluded that two-photon interference exists for not only identical photons, but also photons with different spectrums if the detection system can not distinguish them in principle. The second-order temporal beating with two independent lasers can be employed to measure the coherence time and frequency of one laser if the properties of the other laser were known.

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