Accessing photon bunching with a photon number resolving multi-pixel detector

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 9352-9363

  Kalashnikov, Dmitry A ^a   Tan, Si Hui ^a   Chekhova, Maria V ^b,c   Krivitsky, Leonid A ^a  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; LIGHT; PIXELS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

CROSSTALK EFFECT; HIGHER ORDER; INTENSITY CORRELATION; INTENSITY CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; MULTI-PIXEL; PHOTON BUNCHING; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLVING; STRONG COUPLING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 79955855714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.009352     Document Type: Article

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