TY - JOUR AV - public UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.143901 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, . JF - Physical Review Letters SP - 143901 ID - discovery1398441 PB - APS EP - 143905 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 TI - Young?s Type Interference for Probing the Mode Symmetry in Photonic Structures IS - 14 N1 - © 2011 American Physical Society Y1 - 2011/04/08/ ER -