Turbulence-free interference induced by the turbulence itself

Smith, Thomas A.; Shih, Yanhua

Turbulence-free interference induced by the turbulence itself

dc.contributor.author	Smith, Thomas A.
dc.contributor.author	Shih, Yanhua
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-04T22:06:40Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-04T22:06:40Z
dc.date.issued	2020-12-11
dc.description.abstract	When a laser beam is incident on a double-slit interferometer without turbulence, the classic Young’s double-slit interference is present in the first-order measurement of the mean photon number (or intensity), while the second-order measurement of photon number fluctuation correlation (or intensity fluctuation correlation) yields a trivial constant. When optical turbulence is introduced, it destroys the classic interference present in the measurement of the photon number; however, two-photon interference appears in the measurement of photon number fluctuation correlation. This interesting observation means that the observed two-photon interference is not only observable through turbulence, i.e., turbulence-free, but also induced by the turbulence itself. Turbulence-free two-photon interference induced by the turbulence itself allows for interferometric sensing through strong turbulence when coherent radiation, such as a laser, is applied.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work was partially supported by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The authors would like to thank Tao Peng for helpful discussions.	en
dc.description.uri	https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0031474	en
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dc.genre	journal articles	en
dc.identifier	doi:10.13016/m2lv5y-ifpi
dc.identifier.citation	Smith, Thomas A.; Shih, Yanhua; Turbulence-free interference induced by the turbulence itself; APL Photonics 5,12 (2020); https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0031474	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0031474
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11603/20292
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	AIP Publishing	en
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dc.title	Turbulence-free interference induced by the turbulence itself	en
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