From Hanbury–Brown and Twiss Experiment to the Second-Order Double-Slit Interference for Incoherent Light
From Hanbury–Brown and Twiss Experiment to the Second-Order Double-Slit Interference for Incoherent Light
WANG Kai-ge1, XIONG Jun2, GAO Lu2
1.Department of Physics, Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 34014 Trieste, Italy; 2.Department of Physics, Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
Abstract：In this review article, we discuss both experimentally and theoretically the second-order double-slit interference for a thermal light source which is random in transverse propagating direction. We show that when the bandwidth of the noise spectrum is increased, the first-order interference pattern disappears while the sub-wavelength pattern fringe emerges in the intensity correlation measurement. Our theoretical description, which is carried out in contrast with coherent light and two-photon state sources, demonstrates that this effect can be explained in accordance with the Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment.
出版日期: 2006-03-05
引用本文:
. From Hanbury–Brown and Twiss Experiment to the Second-Order Double-Slit Interference for Incoherent Light[J]. Frontiers of Physics in China - Selected Publications from Chinese Universities, 2006, 1(1): 54-66.
WANG Kai-ge, XIONG Jun, GAO Lu. From Hanbury–Brown and Twiss Experiment to the Second-Order Double-Slit Interference for Incoherent Light. Front. Phys. , 2006, 1(1): 54-66.
