2008/01/06 by I. N. Agafonov, Maria V. Chekhova, M. V. Chekhova +2 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Random lasers and scattering media #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.77.053801
11 pages, 9 figures
arxiv created 2008/01/06 · openalex publication_date 2008/05/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Difference-phase (or Hanbury Brown--Twiss type) intensity interference of classical light is considered in higher orders in the intensity. It is shown that, while the visibility of sum-phase (NOON-type) interference for classical sources drops with the order of interference, the visibility of difference-phase interference has opposite behavior. For three-photon and four-photon interference of two coherent sources, the visibility can be as high as 81.8% and 94.4%, respectively. High-visibility three-photon and four-photon interference of space-time and polarization types has been observed in experiment, for both coherent and pseudothermal light.