• DocumentCode
    732628
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183064
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=732628