Hanbury Brown and Twiss anticorrelation in disordered photonic lattices
Optics
2016-11-22 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We report measurements of Hanbury Brown and Twiss correlation of coherent light transmitted through disordered one-dimensional photonic lattices. Although such a lattice exhibits transverse Anderson localization when a single input site is excited, uniform excitation precludes its observation. By examining the Hanbury Brown--Twiss correlation for a uniformly excited disordered lattice, we observe intensity anticorrelations associated with photon antibunching--a signature of non-Gaussian statistics. Although the measured average intensity distribution is uniform, transverse Anderson localization nevertheless underlies the observed anticorrelation.
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@article{arxiv.1609.07543,
title = {Hanbury Brown and Twiss anticorrelation in disordered photonic lattices},
author = {H. Esat Kondakci and Lane Martin and Robert Keil and Armando Perez-Leija and Alexander Szameit and Ayman F. Abouraddy and Demetrios N. Christodoulides and Bahaa E. A. Saleh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.07543},
year = {2016}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures