Second-order Coherence Effects Due to the Superposition of Two Independent Thermal Light Beams

Joan L. McMillan Department of Physics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

R.M. Sillitto Department of Physics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Winifred Sillitto Department of Physics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Abstract

A photon-coincidence counting technique has been used to observe the second-order coherence in a plane receiving light from two small incoherently illuminated apertures. Measurements made for two wavelengths, 546·1 and 435·8 nm, gave results consistent with predictions from the van Cittert-Zernike theorem.

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