Polarization and coherence in the Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect

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Article

Publication Date

3-1-2018

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.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2018.1443223

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