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The effect of turbulence on a pair of photons propagating together through the same medium is analyzed. The behavior is compared to the case where these photons propagate separately through different turbulent media. The analysis is done…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Filippus S. Roux

The wave-particle duality has been said to contain the entire mystery of quantum mechanics. Many delayed-choice experiments have been performed to further understand the wave-particle duality. Here, we reveal some flaws in the known…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 Shan-Liang Liu

Interference of two beams produced at separate biphoton sources was first observed more than two decades ago. The phenomenon, often called "induced coherence without induced emission", has recently gained attention after its applications to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 M. Lahiri , A. Hochrainer , R. Lapkiewicz , G. B. Lemos , A. Zeilinger

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

The development of new quantum light sources requires robust and convenient methods of characterizing their joint spectral properties. Measuring the joint spectral intensity between a photon pair ignores any correlations in spectral phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Bryn A. Bell , Gil Triginer Garces , Ian A. Walmsley

It is known that waves generated by ambient noise sources and recorded by passive receivers can be used to image the reflectivities of an unknown medium. However, reconstructing the reflectivity of the medium from partial boundary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Zetao Fei , Josselin Garnier

Superbunching pseudothermal light has important applications in studying the second- and higher-order interference of light in quantum optics. Unlike the photon statistics of thermal or pseudothermal light is well understood, the photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Chaoqi Wei , Jianbin Liu , Xuexing Zhang , Rui Zhuang , Yu Zhou , Hui Chen , Yuchen He , Huaibin Zheng , Zhuo Xu

The increasing demand for wireless sensing systems has led to the exploration of alternative technologies to overcome the spectrum scarcity of traditional approaches based on radio frequency (RF) waves or microwaves. Incoherent light…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Md Zobaer Islam , Sabit Ekin , John F. O'Hara

We propose and analyze a generalized model of photodetection in which the detector couples simultaneously to both electric and magnetic components of the electromagnetic field. Extending Glauber's seminal theory, we show that such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Brian Stout

We study polarization effects in the nonlinear interference of photons generated via frequency non-degenerate spontaneous parametric down conversion. Signal and idler photons generated in the visible and infrared (IR) range, are split in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Anna Paterova , Hongzhi Yang , Chengwu An , Dmitry Kalashnikov , Leonid Krivitsky

Photons preferentially Compton scatter perpendicular to the plane of polarisation. This property can be exploited to design instruments to measure the linear polarisation of hard X-rays ($\sim$10 - 100 keV). Photons may undergo two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-25 Ettore Del Monte , Sergio Fabiani , Mark Pearce

The visibilities of second-order (single-photon) and fourth-order (two-photon) interference have been observed in a Young's double-slit experiment using light generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion and a photon-counting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. F. Abouraddy , M. B. Nasr , B. E. A. Saleh , A. V. Sergienko , M. C. Teich

A pulsed source of entangled photons is desirable for some applications. Yet, such a source has intrinsic problems arising from the simultaneous arrival of the signal and noise photons to the detectors. These problems are analyzed and…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Mónica B. Agüero , Alejandro A. Hnilo , Marcelo G. Kovalsky

A novel thermal light interferometer was recently introduced in V. Tamma and J. Seiler, New J. Phys. 18, 032002 (2016). Here, two classically correlated beams, obtained by beam splitting a thermal light beam, propagate through two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Vincenzo Tamma

Measurement of cosmic microwave background polarization is today a major goal of observational cosmology. The level of the signal to measure, however, makes it very sensitive to various systematic effects. In the case of Planck, which…

We study both experimentally and theoretically, considering bosonic atoms in a periodic potential, the influence of interactions in a Talbot interferometer. While interactions decrease the contrast of the revivals, we find that over a wide…

A quantum system composed of two or more subsystems can be in an entangled state, i.e. a state in which the properties of the global system are well defined but the properties of each subsystem are not. Entanglement is at the heart of…

A number of recent interference experiments involving multiple photons are reviewed. These experiments include generalized photon bunching effects, generalized Hong-Ou-Mandel interference effects and multi-photon interferometry for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Y. Ou

The correlation function in quantum systems plays a vital role in decoding their properties and gaining insights into physical phenomena. Its interpretation corresponds to the propagation of particle excitations between space-time, similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Yuan Feng , Xi Chen , Yongcheng Ding

We describe a detector that measures the mutual coherence of two optical fields directly using quantum interference, free from photon noise of the individual irradiances. Our approach utilizes Raman transition in an atomic system where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-16 Jungsang Kim , David J. Brady