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IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting (LEOS)

Photon quantum correlation measurements by two photon absorption in semiconductors

Fabien Boitier, Antoine Godard, E. Rosencher, Claude Fabre

Published Oct 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show that photon quantum correlations can be measured by two photon absorption in semiconductors. Hanbury-Brown Twiss experiments can thus be performed with genuine blackbodies with a time resolution in the femtosecond range.
DOI
10.1109/leos.2009.5343069

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