Polarization and coherence in the Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect

Xianlong Liu; Gaofeng Wu; Xiaoyan Pang; David Kuebel; Taco D. Visser

doi:10.1080/09500340.2018.1443223

Polarization and coherence in the Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect

Xianlong Liu, Gaofeng Wu, Xiaoyan Pang, David Kuebel, Taco D. Visser^*

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Abstract

We study the correlation of intensity fluctuations in random electromagnetic beams, the so-called Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect (HBT). We show that not just the state of coherence of the source, but also its state of polarization has a strong influence on the far-zone correlations. Different types of sources are found to have different upper bounds for the normalized HBT coefficient.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Modern Optics
Volume	65
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2018.1443223
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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Coherence
electromagnetic optics
Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect
polarization
random beams

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