3rd Order Temporal Correlation Function of Pseudo-Thermal Light

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http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3512

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0909.3512
 http://hdl.handle.net/11603/39987

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2009-09-18

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Quantum Physics
UMBC Quantum Optics Laboratory

Abstract

This experiment reports a nontrivial third-order temporal correlation of chaotic-thermal light in which the randomly radiated thermal light is observed to have a 6-times greater chance of being captured by three individual photodetectors simultaneously than that of being captured by three photodetectors at different times (separated by the coherent time of pseudo-thermal light), indicating a "three-photon bunching" effect. The nontrivial correlation of thermal light is the result of multi-photon interference.