Title :
Experimental study of the momentum correlation of a pseudo-thermal field in the photon counting regime
Author :
Scarcelli, Giuliano ; Valencia, Alejandra ; Shih, Yanhua
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Maryland Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
Thermal radiation has been recently proposed for imaging and interference experiments to simulate entangled state. We report an experimental study on the momentum correlation properties of a pseudo-thermal field in the photon counting regime.
Keywords :
heat radiation; photon counting; quantum entanglement; entangled state; momentum correlation properties; photon counting regime; pseudo-thermal field; thermal radiation; Circuits; Detectors; Histograms; Interference; Lenses; Light sources; Optical imaging; Photonics Society; Physics; Quantum entanglement;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2005. QELS '05
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-796-2
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2005.1549057
