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A Photonic System for Generating Unconditional Polarization-Entangled Photons Based on Multiple Quantum Interference
Published on: September 5, 2019
The influence of the degree of cross-polarization on the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect
Asma Al-Qasimi1, Mayukh Lahiri, David Kuebel
1Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada.
Abstract:
We show, by an example, that the knowledge of the degree of coherence and of the degree of polarization of a light beam incident on two photo detectors is not adequate to predict correlations in the fluctuations of the currents generated in the detectors (the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect). The knowledge of the so-called degree of cross-polarization, introduced not long ago, is also needed.
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