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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Measuring Photon Bunching at Ultrashort Timescale by Two-Photon Absorption in Semiconductors

Fabien Boitier, Antoine Godard, Jean C. Bonnet, E. Rosencher, Claude Fabre

Published Jan 1, 2009• 9 citations
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Abstract

Photon bunching in highly chaotic sources (true blackbody and amplified spontaneous emission) is detected for the first time with femtosecond temporal resolution by use of a Hanbury-Brown-Twiss experiment relying on two-photon absorption in semiconductors.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2009.imh1

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