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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Scarcelli, Giuliano
• Valencia, Alejandra
• Shih, Yanhua

Titel

Experimental study of the momentum correlation of a pseudothermal field in the photon-counting regime

Ist Teil von

• Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 2004-11, Vol.70 (5), Article 051802

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

PROLA

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Thermal (or pseudothermal) 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 pseudothermal 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.