Abstract

Measurement of the two-photon time distribution in a mixture of light from a He–Ne laser and a Gaussian source of the same central frequency agrees well with the prediction of coherence theory when the laser is represented by a single coherent state. The peak in the distribution near zero time difference is made up of contributions due to the second-order interference between pairs of Gaussian photons and between laser and Gaussian photons.

© 1972 Optical Society of America

Measurement of the Light-Field Amplitude-Correlation Function through Joint Photon-Count Distributions*

P. Furcinitti, J. D. Kuppenheimer, L. M. Narducci, and R. A. Tuft
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 62(6) 792-796 (1972)

Detection of Weak Optical Images with Photon Counting Techniques

John Amoss and Frederic Davidson
Appl. Opt. 11(8) 1793-1800 (1972)

Correlated two-photon imaging with true thermal light

Da Zhang, Yan-Hua Zhai, Ling-An Wu, and Xi-Hao Chen
Opt. Lett. 30(18) 2354-2356 (2005)

Parametric Study of Apertured Focused Gaussian Beams

D. A. Holmes, J. E. Korka, and P. V. Avizonis
Appl. Opt. 11(3) 565-574 (1972)

Seven-Channel Fabry-Perot Spectrum Analyzer Used in Laser Scattering Measurements

P. K. John and R. Benesch
Appl. Opt. 11(1) 153-159 (1972)