Single-photon hologram of a zero-area pulse
arXiv:2105.02795 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.163601
Abstract
Single photons exhibit inherently quantum and unintuitive properties such as the Hong-ou-Mandel effect, demonstrating their bosonic and quantized nature, yet at the same time may correspond to single excitations of spatial or temporal modes with a very complex structure. Those two features are rarely seen together. Here we experimentally demonstrate how the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect can be spectrally-resolved and harnessed to characterize a complex temporal mode of a single-photon \textendash{} a zero-area pulse \textendash{} obtained via a resonant interaction of a terahertz-bandwidth photon with a narrow gigahertz-wide atomic transition of atomic vapor. The combination of bosonic quantum behavior with bandwidth-mismatched light-atom interaction is of fundamental importance for a deeper understanding of both phenomena, as well as their engineering offering applications in the characterization of ultra-fast transient processes.
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