For convenience, I gathered a few comments of mine into a blog post.

  • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    despite phase shifts being the main cause of the described effects.

    what are the other ones?

    (when i’m thinking about splitter with pi/2 phase shift, i’m thinking about coupled line coupler or its waveguide analogue, but i come from microwave land on this one. maybe this works in fibers?)

    • @titotal
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      1 year ago

      what are the other ones?

      I guess the rest of the experimental setup that recombines the photon amplitiudes. Like if you put 5 extra beam splitters in the bottom path, there wouldn’t be full destructive interference.

      when i’m thinking about splitter with pi/4 phase shift, i’m thinking about coupled line coupler or its waveguide analogue, but i come from microwave land on this one. maybe this works in fibers?

      I’m not sure how you’d actually build a symmetric beam splitter: wikipedia said you’d need to induce a particular extra phase shift on both transmission and reflection. (I’m fully theoretical physics so I’m not too familiar).