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An experimental technique is developed to simultaneously measure both temporal and spatial coherences of a light source by altering a standard Michelson interferometer, which has been primarily used for measuring temporal coherence only.…

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An interferometric technique is proposed for determining the spatial forms of the individual degrees of freedom through which a many body system can absorb energy from its environment. The method separates out the coherent excitations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 S. Withington , C. N. Thomas , D. J. Goldie

Conventional techniques that measure rapid time variations are inefficient or inadequate to discover and observe rapidly pulsating astronomical sources. It is therefore conceivable that there exist some classes of objects pulsating with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ermanno F Borra

I review recent applications of two-particle intensity interferometry in high energy physics, concentrating on relativistic heavy ion collisions. By measuring hadronic single-particle spectra and two-particle correlations in hadron-hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich Heinz

Recent advances in telescope design, photodetector efficiency, and high-speed electronic data recording and synchronization have created the observational capability to achieve unprecedented angular resolution for several thousand bright…

Intensity interferometry (Hanbury Brown - Twiss effect) is an interesting and useful concept that is usually presented as a manifestation of the quantum statistics of indistinguishable particles. Here, by exploiting possibilities for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Jordan Cotler , Frank Wilczek

An experiment is proposed to show that after initial frequency and polarization selection, classical thermal light from two independent sources can be made path-polarization entangled. Such light will show new intensity-intensity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Partha Ghose , Anirban Mukherjee

Intensity interferometry, based on the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect, is a simple and inexpensive method for optical interferometry at microarcsecond angular resolutions; its use in astronomy was abandoned in the 1970s because of low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sascha Trippe , Jae-Young Kim , Bangwon Lee , Changsu Choi , Junghwan Oh , Taeseok Lee , Sung-Chul Yoon , Myungshin Im , Yong-Sun Park

We provide a quantitative theory of discrimination between objects with the same color temperature but having different angular spectrum by intensity interferometry. The two-point correlation function of the black body image with extended…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-05 P. B. Lerner , N. M. Miskovsky , P. H. Cutler

High angular resolution observations at optical wavelengths provide valuable insights in stellar astrophysics, directly measuring fundamental stellar parameters, and probing stellar atmospheres, circumstellar disks, elongation of rapidly…

We present the current status of the I2C stellar intensity interferometer used towards high angular resolution observations of stars in visible wavelengths. In these proceedings, we present recent technical improvements to the instrument,…

The correlation of light from two sources leads to an interference pattern if they belong to a specific time interval known as the coherence time, denoted as $\Delta \tau$. The relationship governing this phenomenon is $\Delta \tau \Delta…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Km Nitu Rai , Soumen Basak , Subrata Sarangi , Prasenjit Saha

Understanding the boundary between classical and nonclassical phenomena is important for both fundamental researches in quantum optics and applications in quantum information. One of the most interesting research directions in this field is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yu Gu , Yuhan Ma , Yiqi Song , Meixue Chen , Hui Chen , Huaibin Zheng , Yuchen He , Yu Zhou , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu , Jianbin Liu

In this whitepaper, we outline how recent technological advances and ongoing developments open qualitatively new science opportunities in cosmology, fundamental physics, and quantum astrophysics. First, intensity interferometry can…

Measurements of the spectrum of the fluctuations of the output current of the quadratic detector of a telescope can be used to find unresolved astronomical gravitational lenses and determine time delays between their image components. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ermanno F. Borra

In recent years, intensity interferometry has seen renewed interest and successful application at Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope arrays. These measurements are usually performed during bright moon periods while the instruments'…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Christopher Ingenhütt , Pedro Batista , Gisela Anton , Alison Mitchell , Naomi Vogel , Adrian Zink , Andreas Zmija , Stefan Funk

In the last years we have operated two very similar ultrafast photon counting photometers (Iqueye and Aqueye+) on different telescopes. The absolute time accuracy in time tagging the detected photon with these instruments is of the order of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Giampiero Naletto , Luca Zampieri , Cesare Barbieri , Mauro Barbieri , Enrico Verroi , Gabriele Umbriaco , Paolo Favazza , Luigi Lessio , Giancarlo Farisato

We report first white-light interferograms obtained with an integrated optics beam combiner on a glass plate. These results demonstrate the feasability of single-mode interferometric beam combination with integrated optics technology…

Intensity interferometry -- the correlation of spatially separated light intensities -- has historically been an important tool for precision optical astronomical observations. However, due to the extremely narrow field of view, its scope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-10 Ken Van Tilburg , Masha Baryakhtar , Marios Galanis , Neal Weiner

We show that distances of objects at cosmological distances can be measured directly using interferometry. Our approach to interferometric parallax comes from analysis of 4-point amplitude and intensity correlations that can be generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pankaj Jain , John P. Ralston