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Is it necessary to achieve sub-wavelength interference with correlation?

Optics 2019-03-12 v1

Abstract

We report an experimental demonstration of sub-wavelength interference without correlation. Typically, people can achieve sub-wavelength effect with correlation measurement no matter by using bi-photon or thermal light sources. Here we adopt a thermal light source. And we count the realizations in which the intensities of the definite symmetric points are above or below a certain threshold. The distribution of numbers of these realizations who satisfy the restriction will show a sub-wavelength effect. With proper constrictions, positive and negative interference patterns are demonstrated.

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@article{arxiv.1903.03795,
  title  = {Is it necessary to achieve sub-wavelength interference with correlation?},
  author = {Ling-Yu Dou and De-Zhong Cao and De-Qin Xu and Xin-Bing Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.03795},
  year   = {2019}
}
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