Hanbury Brown and Twiss anticorrelation in disordered photonic lattices
H. Esat Kondakci, Lane Martin, Robert Keil +5 more
We report measurements of Hanbury Brown and Twiss correlation of coherent light transmitted through disordered one-dimensional photonic lattices. Although such a lattice exhibits transverse Anderson localization when a single input site is excited, uniform excitation precludes its observation. By examining the Hanbury Brown--Twiss correlation for a uniformly excited disordered lattice, we observe intensity anticorrelations associated with photon antibunching---a signature of non-Gaussian statistics. Although the measured average intensity distribution is uniform, transverse Anderson localization nevertheless underlies the observed anticorrelation.
arXiv:1609.07543•Physical Review A•Aug 29, 2016•6 citations