Two-photon interference with true thermal light
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Correlated two-photon imaging with true thermal light.
Received March 14, 2005; revised manuscript received May 4, 2005; accepted May 4, 2005 We report what is believed to be the first experimental demonstration of two-photon correlated imaging with true thermal light from a hollow cathode lamp. The coherence time of the source is much shorter than that of previous experiments using random scattered light from a laser. A two-pinhole mask was used a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review A
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1050-2947,1094-1622
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.72.043805