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X-Ray-Driven Photon Bunching

Shaul Katznelson, Offek Tziperman, Tomer Bucher, Tom Lenkiewicz Abudi, Roman Schuetz, O. Beer, Shai Levy, Yehonadav Bekenstein, Charles Roques‐Carmes, Ido E. Kaminer

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

We measure the second-order coherence function g(2) for X-ray-driven light emission (scintillation), observing that it is bunched (g(2) > 1), and can achieve extreme bunching values (g(2)~97) in perovskite nano-crystals.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2023.sm1h.6

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