Near-lossless method for generating thermal photon-bunched light
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| author | Yeo, Xi Jie Koh, Darren Ming Zhi Peh, Justin Yu Xiang Kurtsiefer, Christian Tan, Peng Kian |
| author_facet | Yeo, Xi Jie Koh, Darren Ming Zhi Peh, Justin Yu Xiang Kurtsiefer, Christian Tan, Peng Kian |
| contents | Thermal light sources exhibiting photon bunching have been suggested for sensing applications that exploit timing correlations of stationary light, including range finding, clock synchronization, and non-line-of-sight imaging. However, these proposals have remained unrealized in practice because available sources of photon bunching either possess coherence times too short to be timing resolved by photodetectors, or produce brightness levels too low to tolerate realistic return losses. In this work, we demonstrate a low-loss method for generating photon bunching with a conversion efficiency nearly 9 orders of magnitude higher than that achieved by many other bunching processes. |
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| spellingShingle | Near-lossless method for generating thermal photon-bunched light Yeo, Xi Jie Koh, Darren Ming Zhi Peh, Justin Yu Xiang Kurtsiefer, Christian Tan, Peng Kian Quantum Physics Thermal light sources exhibiting photon bunching have been suggested for sensing applications that exploit timing correlations of stationary light, including range finding, clock synchronization, and non-line-of-sight imaging. However, these proposals have remained unrealized in practice because available sources of photon bunching either possess coherence times too short to be timing resolved by photodetectors, or produce brightness levels too low to tolerate realistic return losses. In this work, we demonstrate a low-loss method for generating photon bunching with a conversion efficiency nearly 9 orders of magnitude higher than that achieved by many other bunching processes. |
| title | Near-lossless method for generating thermal photon-bunched light |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00633 |