Phase-dependent Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect for the complete measurement of the complex coherence function

Xuan Tang; Yunxiao Zhang; Xueshi Guo; Liang Cui; Xiaoying Li; Z. Y. Ou

doi:10.1038/s41377-024-01684-y

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Phase-dependent Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect for the complete measurement of the complex coherence function

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- Phase-dependent Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect for the complete measurement of the complex coherence function
- Phase-dependent Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect for the complete measurement of the complex coherence function
- LSA 2025年14卷第2期页码：422-429
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
  2.The State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, College of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
- Author bio：
  
  Xiaoying Li (xiaoyingli@tju.edu.cn)
  Z. Y. Ou (jeffou@cityu.edu.hk)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01684-y
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- 收稿日期：2024-05-13，
  
  修回日期：2024-10-27，
  
  录用日期：2024-11-08，
  
  网络出版日期：2025-01-13，
  
  纸质出版日期：2025-02-28
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Phase-dependent Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect for the complete measurement of the complex coherence function[J]. LSA, 2025,14(2):422-429.

Tang, X. et al. Phase-dependent Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect for the complete measurement of the complex coherence function. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 422-429 (2025).
Phase-dependent Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect for the complete measurement of the complex coherence function[J]. LSA, 2025,14(2):422-429. DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01684-y.

Tang, X. et al. Phase-dependent Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect for the complete measurement of the complex coherence function. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 422-429 (2025). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01684-y.

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Abstract

Hanbury-Brown and Twiss (HBT) effect is the foundation for stellar intensity interferometry. However

it is a phase insensitive two-photon interference effect. Here we extend the HBT interferometer by mixing intensity-matched reference fields with the input fields before intensity correlation measurement. With the freely available coherent state serving as the reference field

we experimentally demonstrate the phase sensitive two-photon interference effect when the input fields are thermal fields in either continuous wave or non-stationary pulsed wave and measure the complete complex second-order coherence function of the input fields without bringing them together from separate locations. Moreover

we discuss how to improve the signal level by using the more realistic continuous wave broadband anti-bunched light fields as the reference field. Our investigations pave the way for developing new technology of remote sensing and interferometric imaging with applications in long baseline high-resolution astronomy.

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