An optical multimode fiber as pseudothermal light source
Quantum Physics
2017-08-02 v1 Optics
Abstract
We report on a novel pseudothermal light source based on laser light coupled into an optical multimode fiber. The setup is simple, of low cost, exhibits inherently high directional light emission and allows for a flexible arrangement. By measuring the photon statistics and spatial two point intensity correlations in the far field we show that the setup exhibits all characteristics of a gaussian random source.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1611.09161,
title = {An optical multimode fiber as pseudothermal light source},
author = {Thomas Mehringer and Steffen Oppel and Joachim von Zanthier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09161},
year = {2017}
}