TY - JOUR A1 - Intonti, F A1 - Riboli, F A1 - Caselli, N A1 - Abbarchi, M A1 - Vignolini, S A1 - Wiersma, DS A1 - Vinattieri, A A1 - Gerace, D A1 - Balet, L A1 - Li, LH A1 - Others, . UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.143901 AV - public SP - 143901 ID - discovery1398441 PB - APS JF - Physical Review Letters VL - 106 N2 - 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. SN - 0031-9007 EP - 143905 N1 - © 2011 American Physical Society Y1 - 2011/04/08/ TI - Young?s Type Interference for Probing the Mode Symmetry in Photonic Structures IS - 14 ER -