Turbulence-free two-photon double-slit interference with coherent and incoherent light

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2019-11-11

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Smith, Thomas A., and Yanhua Shih. “Turbulence-Free Two-Photon Double-Slit Interference with Coherent and Incoherent Light.” Optics Express 27, no. 23 (2019): 33282–97. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.033282.

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turbulence-free Young's double-slit interferometer
environmental turbulence
two-photon interference pattern
optical observations

Abstract

This article reports a study on a turbulence-free Young’s double-slit interferometer. When the environmental turbulence blurs out the classic Young’s double-slit interference completely, a two-photon interference pattern is still observable from the measurement of intensity or photon number fluctuation correlation. This two-photon interferometer always produces a turbulence-free interference pattern, when the double-slit interferometer is utilizing both first-order spatially incoherent light and spatially coherent light. This type of two-photon interferometer establishes new capabilities in optical observations and sensing measurements that require high sensitivity and stability.