Title :
Thermal light cannot be represented as a statistical mixture of pulses
Author :
Chenu, Aurelia ; Branczyk, Agata M. ; Sipe, J.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Can thermal light be represented by a mixture of single pulses? It cannot; only a modified mixture can yield the correct first-order correlation function at equal space-points. Still, this fails to reproduce higher orders.
Keywords :
heat radiation; light absorption; correct first-order correlation function; equal space-points; modified mixture; single pulse mixture; statistical pulse mixture; thermal light; Bandwidth; Broadband communication; Coherence; Correlation; Optical pulses; Probability distribution;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
