Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry with interacting photons

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 721-726

  Bromberg, Y ^a   Lahini, Y ^a   Small, E ^a   Silberberg, Y ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION MEASUREMENT; EXTRACT INFORMATIONS; INTENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; INTERACTING PHOTONS; MULTI-PATH INTERFERENCE; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; SUBATOMIC PARTICLES;

INTERFEROMETRY;

PHOTONS;

EID: 77957588629     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.195     Document Type: Article

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