3rd Order Temporal Correlation Function of Pseudo-Thermal Light

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dc.contributor.authorZhou, Yu
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Jianbin
dc.contributor.authorShih, Yanhua
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-28T16:10:30Z
dc.date.issued2009-09-18
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors wish to thank M.H. Rubin, J.P. Simon, S. Karmakar, Z.D. Xie and H. Chen for helpful discussions. This research was partially supported by the AFOSR and ARO-MURI program.
dc.description.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3512
dc.format.extent4 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.genrepreprints
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2iqat-ytr5
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0909.3512
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/39987
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.subjectUMBC Quantum Optics Laboratory
dc.title3rd Order Temporal Correlation Function of Pseudo-Thermal Light
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dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9697-4613

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