Submitted:
10 August 2020
Posted:
12 August 2020
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Abstract
A well known result for the interference of two single-mode fields is that the degree of coherence and the degree of indistinguishablity are same when we consider the detection of a single photon. In this article we present the relation between degree of coherence, path indistinguishability and the fringe visibility considering interference of multiple number of single-mode fields while being interested in the detection of a single photon only . We will also mention how Born’s rule of interference for multiple sources is reflected in these results.
Keywords:
single-mode field interference
; coherence
; Path indistinguishability
; Fringe visibility
; Quantum Optics
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