High-visibility multi-photon interference of Hanbury Brown - Twiss type for classical light
Quantum Physics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Difference-phase (or Hanbury Brown - Twiss type) intensity interference of classical light is considered in higher orders in the intensity. It is shown that, while the visibility of sum-phase (NOON-type) interference for classical sources drops with the order of interference, the visibility of difference-phase interference has opposite behavior. For three-photon and four-photon interference of two coherent sources, the visibility can be as high as 81.8% and 94.4%, respectively. High-visibility three-photon and four-photon interference of space-time and polarization types has been observed in experiment, for both coherent and pseudo-thermal light.
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@article{arxiv.0801.0881,
title = {High-visibility multi-photon interference of Hanbury Brown - Twiss type for classical light},
author = {I. N. Agafonov and M. V. Chekhova and T. Sh. Iskhakov and A. N. Penin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0881},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages, 9 figures