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Phase Dependent Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect

Xuan Tang, Yunxiao Zhang, Xueshi Guo, Cui Liang, Xiaoying Li, Z. Y. Ou

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report a phase sensitive two-photon interference effect when the incoming thermal fields are mixed with weak coherent reference fields. The complex second-order coherence function of the input thermal fields can be extracted.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2024.jw2a.155

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