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)	1437-1441
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Modern Optics
Volume	65
Issue number	12
Early online date	1 Mar 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2018.1443223
Publication status	Published - 2018

Funding

This material is based upon work supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research [award number FA9550-16-1-0119]. GW acknowledges support from the Natural Science Basic Research Plan of Shaanxi Province of China [grant number 2016JQ1021]. XL is supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) [grant number 201606920060]. This work is partly supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC) [grant number 11504296]; and the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China [program number 2016JQ1011].

Funders	Funder number
National Natural Sciences Foundation of China
Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China	2016JQ1011
Natural Science Basic Research Plan of Shaanxi Province of China	2016JQ1021
Air Force Office of Scientific Research	FA9550-16-1-0119
National Natural Science Foundation of China	11504296
China Scholarship Council	201606920060

Keywords

Coherence
electromagnetic optics
Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect
polarization
random beams

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