SPATIAL INTERFERENCE OF MACROSCOPIC LIGHT FIELDS FROM INDEPENDENT RAMAN SOURCES

被引：40

作者：

KUO, SJ ^{[1
]}

SMITHEY, DT ^{[1
]}

RAYMER, MG ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV OREGON, INST CHEM PHYS, EUGENE, OR 97403 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1991年 / 43卷 / 07期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.43.4083

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We observed single-shot spatial interference from two independent pulsed-light sources using stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in the transient, macroscopic-field regime. By measuring the phase distribution of the Stokes field and the fourth-order spatial correlation function, we verified that the Stokes field obeys thermal-like statistics in the unsaturated SRS gain regime. This reflects the properties of the underlying quantum noise in the vacuum field and scattering medium. A transition from thermal-like to laserlike statistics occurs when the gain becomes saturated.

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页码：4083 / 4086

页数：4

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