Nth-order coherence of thermal light
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- 发布时间：
- 2025-04-30
- 论文名称：
- Nth-order coherence of thermal light
- 发表刊物：
- Physical Review A
- 摘要：
- This paper presents a unified theory for the Nth-order N1 coherence of thermal light. We wish to show
that the Nth-order coherence or correlation of thermal light is the result of N-photon interference, which
involves the superposition of N-photon probability amplitudes, corresponding to different yet indistinguishable
ways of triggering a N-photon joint detection event. The near-field third-order spatial coherence of thermal
light is calculated and its use suggested for verifying the N-photon interference theory.
- 合写作者：
- Jianbin Liu and Yanhua Shih
- 卷号：
- 79
- 页面范围：
- 023819
- 是否译文：
- 否
- 发表时间：
- 2009-02-18