Electromagnetic Hanbury Brown-Twiss phenomenon

• We analyze the classic Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect for thermal electromagnetic fields in space-frequency domain. We compare two different approaches and show that the normalized correlation of intensity fluctuations is fully characterized by the spectral electromagnetic degree of coherence, a result analogous to scalar analysis of the effect. Differences between the two approaches are discussed.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Atom- och molekylfysik och optik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Coherence

Electromagnetic optics

Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect

Interference

Polarization

Degree of coherence

Intensity fluctuations

Normalized correlation

Space-frequency domain

Electromagnetic fields

Physical optics

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