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arxiv 1809.00181 v1 pith:5SS2RWI5 submitted 2018-09-01 quant-ph

Superbunching pseudothermal light with intensity modulated laser light and rotating groundglass

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Pseudothermal light by scattering laser light from rotating groundglass has been extensively employed to study optical coherence in both classical and quantum optics ever since its invention in 1960s. In this paper, we will show that by replacing the invariant intensity laser light in pseudothermal light source with intensity modulated laser light, superbunching pseudothermal light can be obtained. Two-photon interference in Feynman's path integral theory is employed to interpret the phenomenon. Two-photon superbunching is experimentally observed by employing common instruments in optical laboratory. The proposed superbunching pseudothermal light is helpful to understand the physics of two-photon bunching and superbunching, and the difference between classical and quantum interpretations of the second- and higher-order interference of light.

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