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View SchemaEllipsometric measurements by use of photon pairs generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion
| Authors | Ayman F. Abouraddy, Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr., Alexander V. Sergienko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Malvin C. Teich |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0110085 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110085 |
| DOI | 10.1364/OL.26.001717 |
| Journal | Opt. Lett. Vol. 26, 1717-1719 (2001). |
Abstract
We present a novel interferometric technique for performing ellipsometric measurements. This technique relies on the use of a non-classical optical source, namely, polarization-entangled twin photons generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion from a nonlinear crystal, in conjunction with a coincidence-detection scheme. Ellipsometric measurements acquired with this scheme are absolute; i.e., they do not require source and detector calibration.
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