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Intensity correlations of thermal light

Noise reduction measurements and new ghost imaging protocols

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We demonstrate measurement of normalized Glauber’s intensity correlation functions of different orders using an array photodetector. As the light source, we use a laser beam scattered by a rotating ground-glass disc, which has statistics close to that of thermal light. We compare the measurements of the normalized correlation functions to that of the difference-intensity variance and show that they are in a certain sense complementary. The independence of the variance measurement on the number of temporal modes has been demonstrated for the first time. Different versions of high-order ghost imaging are also realized and characterized quantitatively.

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  1. Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of light, G.-Scharowsky Str. 1/Bau 24, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    T. Iskhakov & M. Chekhova

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria and C.N.I.S.M., via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy

    A. Allevi

  3. Data Storage Institute, Agency for Science Technology and Research, 117608, Singapore, Singapore

    D. A. Kalashnikov

  4. Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 et CNRS, UPMC Case 74, 4 place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France

    V. G. Sala

  5. Department of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, 184-8795, Tokyo, Japan

    M. Takeuchi

  6. Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and C.N.I.S.M., via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy

    M. Bondani

  7. M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorobievy Gory 1, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    M. Chekhova

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Iskhakov, T., Allevi, A., Kalashnikov, D.A. et al. Intensity correlations of thermal light. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 199, 127–138 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01508-x

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