Abstract
Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference [1] is a bunching phenomenon based on the bosonic nature of photons. When two photons that are perfectly indistinguishable from each other are mixed using a half beam splitter (HBS), they always bunch and exhibit the absence of coincidence resulting in a specific interferogram called HOM dip. The important property of the HOM interference is that the decrease in coincidence reflects the degree of indistinguishability of the input photons, i.e., it provides information regarding the probability of overlap of the input photons. Thus, this property should enable the estimation of a target photon in an unknown quantum state using a probe photon in a known state. In this work, we realize the above concept as the quantum state tomography (QST) applicable to d-dimensional photonic qudits, which we call HOM-QST [2]. Interestingly, we observe that HOM-QST is robust against various imperfections and that the probe photon can be replaced by classical light. Furthermore, we confirm this by demonstrating a proof-of-principle experiment using two-dimensional polarization qubits.
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