Observation of nontrivial 3-Photon Correlation of Chaotic Thermal Light

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2009-05-31

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Zhou, Yu, Jianbin Liu, and Yanhua Shih. “Observation of Nontrivial 3-Photon Correlation of Chaotic Thermal Light.” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference (2009), Paper IWF6, Optica Publishing Group, May 31, 2009, IWF6. https://doi.org/10.1364/IQEC.2009.IWF6.

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Avalanche photodiodes
Interference
Constructive interference
Light sources
Laser beams
Photodetectors
UMBC Quantum Optics Laboratory

Abstract

The reported experiment observed a nontrivial third-order temporal correlation of chaotic-thermal light in the joint-detection of three individual photodetectors. It seems that the thermal photons are always “bunched” in triples. In the view of quantum mechanics, “three-photon bunching” is a three-photon interference effect.