Accessing Higher Order Correlations in Quantum Optical States by Time Multiplexing

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作者：

Avenhaus, M. ^{[1
]}

Laiho, K. ^{[1
]}

Chekhova, M. V. ^{[1
,2
]}

Silberhorn, C. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Max Planck Inst Sci Light, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany

[2] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Dept Phys, Moscow 119992, Russia

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2010年 / 104卷 / 06期

关键词：

PHOTON; COHERENT; LIGHT; BEAMS;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.063602

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We experimentally measured higher order normalized correlation functions (NCF) of pulsed light with a time-multiplexing detector. We demonstrate excellent performance of our device by verifying unity valued NCF up to the eighth order for coherent light and factorial dependence of the NCF for pseudothermal light. We applied our measurement technique to a type-II parametric down-conversion source to investigate mutual two-mode correlation properties and ascertain nonclassicality.

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