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The second order photon correlation g^(2)(tau) of a chaotic optical-feedback semiconductor laser is precisely measured using a Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometer. The accurate g^(2)(tau) with non-zero delay time is obtained experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Xiaomin Guo , Chen Cheng , Tong Liu , Xin Fang , Yanqiang Guo

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.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 A. Dussaux , T. Passerat de Silans , W. Guerin , O. Alibart , S. Tanzilli , F. Vakili , R. Kaiser

We present a technique for measuring the second-order coherence function $g^{(2)}(\tau)$ of light using a Hanbury-Brown Twiss intensity interferometer modified for homodyne detection. The experiment was performed entirely in the continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Nicolai B. Grosse , Thomas Symul , Magdalena Stobińska , Timothy C. Ralph , Ping Koy Lam

Stellar Intensity Interferometry is a technique based on the measurement of the second order spatial correlation of the light emitted from a star. The physical information provided by these measurements is the angular size and structure of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-13 Luca Zampieri , Giampiero Naletto , Aleksandr Burtovoi , Michele Fiori , Cesare Barbieri

Stellar intensity interferometry (SII) is based on the correlation of the light intensity fluctuations of a star detected at two or more telescopes, with no need to combine the collected photons directly. A measurement of the correlation in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Alessia Spolon , Michele Fiori , Luca Zampieri , Marco Landoni

Two-photon interference is a fundamental resource for quantum technologies and optical quantum computing, underpinning precision measurements, scalable entanglement distribution, and the operation of photonic circuits and quantum network…

Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometry is a milestone experiment that transformed our understanding of the nature of light. The concept was demonstrated in 1956 to measure the radii of stars through photon coincidence detection. This…

Using kilometric arrays of air Cherenkov telescopes, intensity interferometry may increase the spatial resolution in optical astronomy by an order of magnitude, enabling images of rapidly rotating stars with structures in their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Dainis Dravins , Stephan LeBohec , Hannes Jensen , Paul D. Nuñez

Intensity interferometry (II) offers a powerful means to observe stellar objects with a high resolution. In this work, we demonstrate that II can also probe internal stellar kinematics by revealing a time-asymmetric Hanbury Brown and Twiss…

A long-held vision has been to realize diffraction-limited optical aperture synthesis over kilometer baselines. This will enable imaging of stellar surfaces and their environments, and reveal interacting gas flows in binary systems. An…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 Dainis Dravins , Tiphaine Lagadec , Paul D. Nuñez

Typically, optical microscopy uses the wavelike properties of light to image a scene. However, photon arrival times provide more information about emitter properties than the classical intensity alone. Here, we show that the Hanbury Brown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Josef G. Worboys , Daniel W. Drumm , Andrew D. Greentree

Hanbury-Brown and Twiss (HBT) effect is the foundation for stellar intensity interferometry. However, it is a phase insensitive two-photon interference effect. In this paper, we extend the HBT interferometer by mixing two phase-coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Xuan Tang , Yunxiao Zhang , Xueshi Guo , Liang Cui , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou

Future large arrays of telescopes, used as intensity interferometers, can be used to image the surfaces of stars with unprecedented angular resolution. Fast-rotating, hot stars are particularly attractive targets for intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Paul D. Nunez , Armando Domiciano de Souza

In quantum mechanics, photons are bosons -- there is no restriction on the number of them that occupy the same quantum state, so many of them can bunch together, and this is well known as photon bunching effect. However, photon bunching and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Dianwen Zhang

We report on observations of the extended environment of the bright Be star $\gamma$-Cas performed using intensity interferometry measurements within its H$\alpha$ emission line. These observations were performed using a modified version of…

In this work, photon bunching from LED light was observed for the first time using SiPMs. The bunching signature was observed with a significance of $7.3~\sigma$ using 97~hs of data. The light was spectrally filtered using a 1~nm bandpass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-26 Lucas Finazzi , Federico Izraelevitch , Alexis Luszczak , Thomas Huber , Andreas Haungs , Federico Golmar

We study the effects of a collective flow and multiple scattering on two-particle correlation measurements in Hanbury-Brown-Twiss intensity interferometry. We find that under a collective flow the effective source distribution in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cheuk-Yin Wong

The second-order photon correlation function is of great importance in quantum optics which is typically measured with the Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometer which employs a pair of single-photon detectors and a dual-channel time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Shaojie Liu , Xing Lin , Feng Liu , Hairui Lei , Wei Fang , Chaoyuan Jin

Photon statistics divides light sources into three different categories, characterized by bunched, antibunched or uncorrelated photon arrival times. Single atoms, ions, molecules, or solid state emitters display antibunching of photons,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Sebastian Wolf , Stefan Richter , Joachim von Zanthier , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

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,…