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arXiv:2002.05425 · American Journal of Physics

Connecting field and intensity correlations: The Siegert relation and how to test it

Dilleys Ferreira, Romain Bachelard, William Guerin, Robin Kaiser, Mathilde Fouché

Published Sep 22, 2020• 53 citations
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Abstract

The Siegert relation relates electric field and intensity correlations of light, under given assumptions. After a brief derivation of the relation, we present an experimental setup that can be implemented in a student laboratory: it allows measuring both field and intensity correlations at the same time, thus providing a direct test of the Siegert relation. Some experimental results are presented when the scattering medium corresponds to a cold atomic cloud. As a conclusion, we discuss typical situations where the relation fails.

DOI
10.1119/10.0001630

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