High-visibility multiphoton interference of Hanbury Brown-Twiss type for classical light
Abstract
Difference-phase (or Hanbury Brown-Twiss type) intensity interference of classical light is considered in higher orders in the intensity. It is shown that, while the visibility of sum-phase (NOON-type) interference for classical sources drops with the order of interference, the visibility of difference-phase interference has opposite behavior. For three-photon and four-photon interference of two coherent sources, the visibility can be as high as 81.8% and 94.4%, respectively. High-visibility three-photon and four-photon interference of space-time and polarization types has been observed in experiment, for both coherent and pseudothermal light.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- May 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.053801
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0801.0881
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhRvA..77e3801A
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.Ar;
- 42.50.Dv;
- Photon statistics and coherence theory;
- Nonclassical states of the electromagnetic field including entangled photon states;
- quantum state engineering and measurements;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 9 figures