COMPLEMENTARITY AND THE QUANTUM ERASER

We present various experiments demonstrating the mutual exclusivity of observing interference and which-path information, as demanded by Boh r's complementarity principle. Using photon pairs created in parametri c down-conversion, no which-path measurements need to be performed on the interfering photon itself Instead the other photon can be used to introduce distinguishability, which consequently destroys interference . However, a suitable measurement erases this distinguishability and i nterference can be recovered.