Photon wave function formalism for analysis of Mach-Zehnder interferometer and sum-frequency generation

作者：Ritboon Atirach; Daengngam Chalongrat; Pengpan Teparksorn^*

来源：Annals of Physics, 2016, 371: 53-66.

DOI：10.1016/j.aop.2016.04.004

• Photon wave function formalism
• Mach-Zehnder interferometer
• Sum-frequency generation

Biakynicki-Birula introduced a photon wave function similar to the matter wave function that satisfies the Schrodinger equation. Its second quantization form can be applied to investigate nonlinear optics at nearly full quantum level. In this paper, we applied the photon wave function formalism to analyze both linear optical processes in the well-known Mach-Zehnder interferometer and nonlinear optical processes for sum-frequency generation in dispersive and lossless medium. Results by photon wave function formalism agree with the well-established Maxwell treatments and existing experimental verifications.

• 出版日期2016-8