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arxiv: 0801.0881 · v1 · submitted 2008-01-06 · 🪐 quant-ph

High-visibility multi-photon interference of Hanbury Brown - Twiss type for classical light

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keywords interferenceclassicallightvisibilitybrowncoherentdifference-phasefour-photon
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Difference-phase (or Hanbury Brown - Twiss type) intensity interference of classical light is considered in higher orders in the intensity. It is shown that, while the visibility of sum-phase (NOON-type) interference for classical sources drops with the order of interference, the visibility of difference-phase interference has opposite behavior. For three-photon and four-photon interference of two coherent sources, the visibility can be as high as 81.8% and 94.4%, respectively. High-visibility three-photon and four-photon interference of space-time and polarization types has been observed in experiment, for both coherent and pseudo-thermal light.

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