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Time-domain Hong-Ou-Mandel interference of quasi-thermal fields and its application in linear optical circuit characterization

Optics 2022-09-21 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study temporal correlations of interfering quasi-thermal fields, obtained by scattering laser radiation on a rotating ground glass disk. We show that the Doppler effect causes oscillations in temporal cross-correlation function. Furthermore, we propose how to use Hong-Ou-Mandel interference of quasi-thermal fields in the time domain to characterize linear optical circuits.

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@article{arxiv.2205.07117,
  title  = {Time-domain Hong-Ou-Mandel interference of quasi-thermal fields and its application in linear optical circuit characterization},
  author = {Anna Romanova and Konstantin Katamadze and Grant Avosopiants and Leon Biguaa and Nikolay Skryabin and Alexander Kalinkin and Ivan Dyakonov and Yurii Bogdanov and Sergei Kulik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.07117},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

8 pages, 5 figures (main), 4 pages, 1 figure (supplemental)