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The interferometers of Hanbury Brown and collaborators in the 1950s and 60s, and their modern descendants now being developed (intensity interferometers) measure the spatial power spectrum of the source from intensity correlations at two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tina Wentz , Prasenjit Saha

Stellar intensity interferometry consists in measuring the correlation of the light intensity fluctuations at two telescopes observing the same star. The amplitude of the correlation is directly related to the luminosity distribution of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 William Guerin , Mathilde Hugbart , Sarah Tolila , Nolan Matthews , Olivier Lai , Jean-Pierre Rivet , G. Labeyrie , Robin Kaiser

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

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) effect holds a pivotal place in intensity interferometry and gave a seminal contribution to the development of quantum optics. To observe such an effect, both good spectral and timing resolutions are necessary.…

The original intensity interferometers were instruments built in the 1950s and 60s by Hanbury Brown and collaborators, achieving milli-arcsec resolutions in visible light without optical-quality mirrors. They exploited a then-novel physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-05 Vinay Malvimat , Olaf Wucknitz , Prasenjit Saha

We present a preliminary laboratory test of a setup designed to measure Hanbury Brown and Twiss-type intensity correlations from a chaotic light source using five spectral channels simultaneously. After averaging the zero-delay correlation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-14 S Tolila , G Labeyrie , R Kaiser , J. -P Rivet , W Guerin

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…

The Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect (HBT) is described by numerical and analytical modeling, as well as experimentally, using sound waves and easily available instrumentation. An interesting phenomenon that has often been considered too…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-01-12 Arnt Inge Vistnes , Joakim Bergli

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) effect, discovered in the 1950s and further developed in the 1960s, was originally used to estimate stellar angular diameters through intensity correlations measured by spatially separated detectors. Further…

In the 1950's Hanbury Brown and Twiss showed that one could measure the angular sizes of astronomical radio sources and stars from correlations of signal intensities, rather than amplitudes, in independent detectors. Their subsequent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Gordon Baym

As an extension of the ideas of Hanbury-Brown and Twiss, a method is proposed to eliminate the phase noise of white chaotic light in the regime where it is dominant, and to measure the much smaller Poisson fluctuations from which the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Richard Lieu , Tom W. B. Kibble , Lingze Duan

Many modern millimeter and submillimeter (``mm-wave'') telescopes for astronomy are deploying more detectors by increasing detector pixel density, and with the rise of lithographed detector architectures and high-throughput readout…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Charles A. Hill , Akito Kusaka

Improved quantum sensing of photons from astronomical objects could provide high resolution observations in the optical benefiting numerous fields, including general relativity, dark matter studies, and cosmology. It has been recently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-03 Paul Stankus , Andrei Nomerotski , Anže Slosar , Stephen Vintskevich

We investigate the measurement of Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) photon correlations as an experimental tool to discriminate different sources of photon enhancement, which are proposed to simultaneously reproduce the direct photon yield and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Oscar Garcia-Montero , Nicole Löher , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Jürgen Berges , Klaus Reygers

This paper investigates the potential of intensity interferometry, based on the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect, for measuring supernova sizes and distances. Through optimized telescope positioning, observing strategy, and advancements in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 A. G. Kim , P. E. Nugent , Xingzhuo Chen , L. Wang , J. T. O'Brien

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 present a study of an Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometer realized with anyons. Such a device can directly probe entanglement and fractional statistics of initially uncorrelated particles. We calculate HBT cross-correlations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Gabriele Campagnano , Oded Zilberberg , Igor V. Gornyi , Dmitri E. Feldman , Andrew C. Potter , Yuval Gefen

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…

We propose a Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometer for a $\nu=2/5$ fractional quantum Hall edge system, in which quasiparticles tunnel between two co-propagating edge modes. In contrast to the previously studied anyonic Fabry-P\'{e}rot and…

Stellar intensity interferometers correlate photons within their coherence time and could overcome the baseline limitations of existing amplitude interferometers. Intensity interferometers do not rely on phase coherence of the optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-24 Sebastian Karl , Andreas Zmija , Stefan Richter , Naomi Vogel , Dmitry Malyshev , Adrian Zink , Thilo Michel , Gisela Anton , Joachim von Zanthier , Stefan Funk
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