Photon statistics of superbunching pseudothermal light
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11444v1
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 07:15:52 GMT
- Title: Photon statistics of superbunching pseudothermal light
- Authors: Chaoqi Wei, Jianbin Liu, Xuexing Zhang, Rui Zhuang, Yu Zhou, Hui Chen,
Yuchen He, Huaibin Zheng, and Zhuo Xu
- Abstract summary: Superbunching pseudothermal light has important applications in studying the second- and higher-order interference of light in quantum optics.
It is suggested that superbunching pseudothermal light can be employed to generate non-Rayleigh temporal speckles.
- Score: 8.487646359121065
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: Superbunching pseudothermal light has important applications in studying the
second- and higher-order interference of light in quantum optics. Unlike the
photon statistics of thermal or pseudothermal light is well understood, the
photon statistics of superbunching pseudothermal light has not been studied
yet. In this paper, we will employ single-photon detectors to measure the
photon statistics of superbunching pseudothermal light and calculate the degree
of second-order coherence. It is found that the larger the value of the degree
of second-order coherence of superbunching pseudothermal light is, the more the
measured photon distribution deviates from the one of thermal or pseudothermal
light in the tail part. The results are helpful to understand the physics of
two-photon superbunching with classical light. It is suggested that
superbunching pseudothermal light can be employed to generate non-Rayleigh
temporal speckles.
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