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View SchemaExperimental study of the momentum correlation of a pseudo-thermal field in the photon counting regime
| Authors | Giuliano Scarcelli, Alejandra Valencia, Yanhua Shih |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0409210 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0409210 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.051802 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 70, 051802(R) (2004) |
Abstract
Thermal (or pseudo-thermal) radiation has been recently proposed for imaging and interference types of experiments to simulate entangled states. We report an experimental study on the momentum correlation properties of a pseudo-thermal field in the photon counting regime. The characterization and understanding of such a light source in the context of two photon physics, especially its similarities and differences compared to entangled two-photon states, is useful in gaining knowledge of entanglement and may help us to assess the real potential of applications of chaotic light in this context.
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