Thermal light cannot be represented as a statistical mixture of pulses

Aurélia Chenu, Agata M. Brańczyk, John E. Sipe

Published Jan 1, 2015• 1 citation

Abstract

Can thermal light be represented by a mixture of single pulses? It cannot; only a modified mixture can yield the correct first-order correlation function at equal space-points. Still, this fails to reproduce higher orders.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2015.fm2a.6

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