Coherent Beam Splitting by a Thin Grating

• Authors: M. Božić , D. Dimić , M. Davidović
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The wide use of beam splitters in quantum interferometry, attosecond metrology, modern quantum information processing, foundations of quantum mechanics, has been based on coherence of beams emerging from a beam splitter. Here we further develop the approach in which a beam splitter is regarded as a transformer of an incident wave field (photon field or matter wave field) into a field which has narrow maxima at the points along and in close vicinity of two or more particular lines. This description was derived by considering a thin grating as a model of a beam splitter for photons, atoms and molecules. It is applied to answer some questions raised in the discussions on the interpretation of wave particle duality.

Keywords

EN

03.75.-b; 03.75.Be; 03.75.Dg; 42.25.Fx; 42.25.Hz

Discipline

• 03.75.Be: Atom and neutron optics
• 42.25.Fx: Diffraction and scattering
• 03.75.-b: Matter waves(for atom interferometry, see 37.25.+k; see also 67.85.-d ultracold gases, trapped gases in quantum fluids and solids)
• 42.25.Hz: Interference
• 03.75.Dg: Atom and neutron interferometry

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 116
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 479-482

Dates

published

2009-10

Contributors

author

M. Božić

• Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

author

D. Dimić

• Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Niš, Serbia

author

M. Davidović

• Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.116.479