Interference of Light in a Michelson-Morley Interferometer: A Quantum Optical Approach

Figure 3

The normalized intensity ⟨𝐼⟩(𝜏)/⟨𝐼⟩(0) as a function of the time-delay 𝜏𝜎 for the case of coherent states as generated by the same single-photon states as in Figure 2. Two different examples are plotted with 𝜔_𝑠=3𝜎: 𝜔_𝑙𝑜=3.15𝜎 with (solid line) or 𝜔_𝑙𝑜=2.85𝜎 (dashed line). The asymptotic values of ⟨𝐼⟩(𝜏)/⟨𝐼⟩(0) are as in Figure 2.