Nth -order coherence of thermal light

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Liu, Jianbin ^a,b   Shih, Yanhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERENCE THEORIES; JOINT DETECTIONS; NEAR FIELDS; PROBABILITY AMPLITUDES; SPATIAL COHERENCES; THERMAL LIGHTS; THIRD ORDERS; UNIFIED THEORIES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 62149121399     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.023819     Document Type: Article

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