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View SchemaCorrelated two-photon imaging with true thermal light
| Authors | Da Zhang, Xi-Hao Chen, Yan-Hua Zhai, Ling-An Wu |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0503122 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0503122 |
| DOI | 10.1364/OL.30.002354 |
Abstract
We report 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 as object, and the corresponding thin lens equation was well satisfied. Since thermal light sources are easier to obtain and measure than entangled light it is conceivable that they may be used in special imaging applications.
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