Temporal intensity correlation of light scattered by a hot atomic vapor
Atomic Physics
2016-06-01 v3
Abstract
We present temporal intensity correlation measurements of light scattered by a hot atomic vapor. Clear evidence of photon bunching is shown at very short time-scales (nanoseconds) imposed by the Doppler broadening of the hot vapor. Moreover, we demonstrate that relevant information about the scattering process, such as the ratio of single to multiple scattering, can be deduced from the measured intensity correlation function. These measurements confirm the interest of temporal intensity correlation to access non-trivial spectral features, with potential applications in astrophysics.
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@article{arxiv.1601.00853,
title = {Temporal intensity correlation of light scattered by a hot atomic vapor},
author = {A. Dussaux and T. Passerat de Silans and W. Guerin and O. Alibart and S. Tanzilli and F. Vakili and R. Kaiser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.00853},
year = {2016}
}