• DocumentCode
    499575
  • Title

    Observation of nontrivial 3-photon correlation of chaotic thermal light

  • Author

    Zhou, Yu ; Liu, Jianbin ; Shih, Yanhua

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    2-4 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The reported experiment observed a nontrivial third-order temporal correlation of chaotic-thermal light in the joint-detection of three individual photodetectors. It seems that the thermal photons are always ldquobunchedrdquo in triples. In the view of quantum mechanics, ldquothree-photon bunchingrdquo is a three-photon interference effect.
  • Keywords
    optical chaos; photodetectors; quantum optics; quantum theory; chaotic thermal light; nontrivial third order temporal correlation; nontrivial three-photon correlation; photodetector; quantum mechanics; three-photon bunching; three-photon interference effect; Chaos; (270.0270) Quantum optics; (270.5290) Photon statistics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-869-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5224709