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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Observation of Nontrivial 3-Photon Correlation of Chaotic Thermal Light

Yu Zhou, Jianbin Liu, Yanhua H. Shih

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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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.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2009.iwf6

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