1 Key Laboratory of Multifunctional Materials and Structures, Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China; 2 The Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics(Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China; 3 MOE Key Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, Department of Applied Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
Abstract Superbunching pseudothermal light has important applications in studying the second- and higher-order interference of light in quantum optics. Unlike the photon statistics of thermal or pseudothermal light is well understood, the photon statistics of superbunching pseudothermal light has not been studied yet. In this paper, we will employ single-photon detectors to measure the photon statistics of superbunching pseudothermal light and calculate the degree of second-order coherence. It is found that the larger the value of the degree of second-order coherence of superbunching pseudothermal light is, the more the measured photon distribution deviates from the one of thermal or pseudothermal light in the tail part. The results are helpful to understand the physics of two-photon superbunching with classical light. It is suggested that superbunching pseudothermal light can be employed to generate non-Rayleigh temporal speckles.
Fund: Project supported by the Shanxi Key Research and Development Project, China (Grant No. 2019ZDLGY09-08), Shanxi Nature and Science Basic Research Project, China (Grant No. 2019JLP-18), Open fund of MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics (Grant No. OS19-2).
Corresponding Authors:
Jian-Bin Liu
E-mail: liujianbin@xjtu.edu.cn
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