Mirror-assisted backscattering interferometry to measure the first-order
correlation function of the light emitted by quantum scatterers
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01437v2
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:10:36 GMT
- Title: Mirror-assisted backscattering interferometry to measure the first-order
correlation function of the light emitted by quantum scatterers
- Authors: Pablo Gabriel Santos Dias, Marcia Frometa Fernandez, Pedro Henrique
Nantes Magnani, Klara Rhaissa Burlamaqui Theophilo, Mathilde Hugbart,
Philippe Wilhelm Courteille, Raul Celistrino Teixeira
- Abstract summary: We present a new method to obtain the first-order temporal correlation function, $g(1) (tau)$, of the light scattered by an assembly of point-like quantum scatterers.
This new method has direct application to obtain the saturated spectrum of quantum systems.
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- Abstract: We present a new method to obtain the first-order temporal correlation
function, $g^{(1)} (\tau)$, of the light scattered by an assembly of point-like
quantum scatterers, or equivalently its spectral power distribution. This new
method is based on the mirror-assisted backscattering interferometric setup.
The contrast of its angular fringes was already linked in the past to the
convolution of $g^{(1)} (\tau)$ for different Rabi frequencies taking into
account the incoming spatial intensity profile of the probe beam, but we show
here that by simply adding a half waveplate to the interferometer in a specific
configuration, the fringe contrast becomes $g^{(1)} (\tau)$ of the light
scattered by atoms, which are now all subjected to the same laser intensity.
This new method has direct application to obtain the saturated spectrum of
quantum systems. We discuss some non-trivial aspects of this interferometric
setup, and propose an analogy with a double Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
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