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[en] A scheme is proposed for experimentally realizing the famous two-slit Gedaenken experiment using photons. As elegantly discussed for electrons by Feynman, a particle's quantum pathways interfere to produce fringes in the probability density for the particle to be found at a particle location. If the path taken by the particle is experimentally determined, the complementarity principle says that the fringes must disappear. To carry out this experiment with photons is difficult because normally the act of determining a photon's location destroys it. We propose to overcome this difficulty by putting a type-2 optical parametric amplifier (OPA) in each arm of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and observing fringes at the output. An OPA responds to an input photon by increasing its probability to produce a pair of photons with polarization orthogonal to the input, the detection of which allows partial inference about the path taken by the input photon without destroying it. Thus, the measurement is of the quantum nondemolition (QND) type
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Han, D.; Kim, Y.S.; Zachary, W.W.; Oregon Univ., Eugene, OR (United States); 385 p; Feb 1992; p. 91-93; Squeezed states and uncertainty relations conference; College Park, MD (United States); 28-30 Mar 1991; NASA-CP--3135; REPT--92B00024; NAS--1.15:3135; CONF-9103184--; NTIS HC/MF A17; INIS
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