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An explicit expression is given for the correlation function of blinking systems, i.e. systems exhibiting light and dark periods in their fluorescence. We show through the example of terrylene in a crystalline host that it is possible to…
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We report on measurements of second-order intensity correlations $g^{(2)}(\tau)$ of infrared emission under bichromatic excitation at 589.2\,nm and 569.0\,nm of sodium atoms contained in a buffer-gas-free and uncoated 10-cm-long vapor cell.…
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