3rd Order Temporal Correlation Function of Pseudo-Thermal Light
Quantum Physics
2009-09-30 v1
Abstract
This experiment reports a nontrivial third-order temporal correlation of chaotic-thermal light in which the randomly radiated thermal light is observed to have a 6-times greater chance of being captured by three individual photodetectors simultaneously than that of being captured by three photodetectors at different times (separated by the coherent time of pseudo-thermal light), indicating a "three-photon bunching" effect. The nontrivial correlation of thermal light is the result of multi-photon interference.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0909.3512,
title = {3rd Order Temporal Correlation Function of Pseudo-Thermal Light},
author = {Yu Zhou and Jianbin Liu and Yanhua Shih},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.3512},
year = {2009}
}