%0 Journal Article
%@ 0031-9007
%A Intonti, F
%A Riboli, F
%A Caselli, N
%A Abbarchi, M
%A Vignolini, S
%A Wiersma, DS
%A Vinattieri, A
%A Gerace, D
%A Balet, L
%A Li, LH
%A Others, .
%D 2011
%F discovery:1398441
%I APS
%J Physical Review Letters
%N 14
%P 143901 - 143905
%T Young’s Type Interference for Probing the Mode Symmetry in Photonic Structures
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1398441/
%V 106
%X A revisited realization of the Young’s double slit experiment is introduced to directly probe the photonic  mode symmetry by photoluminescence experiments. We experimentally measure the far field angular  emission pattern of quantum dots embedded in photonic molecules. The experimental data well agree with  predictions from Young’s interference and numerical simulations. Moreover, the vectorial nature of  photonic eigenmodes results in a rather complicated parity property for different polarizations, a feature  which has no counterpart in quantum mechanics.
%Z © 2011 American Physical Society