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Article #462"irreversible" beam splitter - correction
From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 17:31
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 17:31
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I woke up this morning realizing that, of course, if the two beams into the splitter ar coherent and 90 degrees out of phase then one output port will have no signal due to constructive interference because of extra 90 degree shift of splitter. In this special circumstance splitter is not "irreversible". But his trick can be used to get a single |h> in my experiment. Put a 90 degree shift phase plate in path of one output of first recombiner then use second beamsplitter so that all of the signal goes to only one counter. Now Ramsay don't say we have to worry about phase variations because lots of interferometers work this way. For example, a Mach-Zehnder.
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!pacbell.com!well!sarfatti From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) Subject: "irreversible" beam splitter - correction Message-ID: <Bx7Cot.4D7@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 17:31:41 GMT Lines: 11