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
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;
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
