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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Direct evidence of intensity correlation of broadband incoherent cw sources at ultrashort timescale by second-order interferometry with a two-photon-absorption detector

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

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

The second-order coherence properties of highly-incoherent cw sources (true blackbody and amplified spontaneous emission) are directly evidenced at femtosecond timescales by use of an interferometric autocorrelator based on a two-photon absorption in a GaAs phototube.
DOI
10.1364/cleo.2009.ctub2

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