Coherence Properties and Photon Correlation
- 16 August 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 139 (4A) , A1072-A1075
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.139.a1072
Abstract
An intensity-correlation experiment is proposed to test the second-order coherence of laser light from a cw-operated laser based on the Glauber formalism. The calculation utilizes the known form of the density matrix for radiation from a randomly excited source such as a discharge tube which is equivalent to filtered black-body radiation, and represents the laser radiation field by a coherent state. The intensity correlation calculated exhibits the standard Hanbury Brown-Twiss term and an extra term due to intensity interference between the Fourier components of the thermal field and the laser mode.Keywords
This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
- Intensity Fluctuations in a GaAs LaserPhysical Review Letters, 1965
- Coherent and Incoherent States of the Radiation FieldPhysical Review B, 1963
- The Quantum Theory of Optical CoherencePhysical Review B, 1963
- Correlation between Photons in two Coherent Beams of LightNature, 1956