Photonics Research, 2020, 8 (4): 04000503, Published Online: Mar. 19, 2020
Super-bunched focusing with chirped random-phase gratings Download: 538次
Abstract
Chirped random-phase gratings are designed to produce experimentally a super-bunched focusing effect with a high bunching peak value of and a high visibility of 92.5%, greatly surpassing the theoretical bunching peak of 2 of thermal light. Both slit-width-chirped and period-chirped random-phase gratings are studied theoretically and experimentally. The full width at half-maximum of the super-bunched curve decreases significantly with an increase in the slit number, focusing the photon pairs within a decreasing spot size. This super-bunched focusing effect can be useful for improving the resolution and the visibility of the correlation image simultaneously.
Lu Zhang, Dongxu Zhou, Yiping Lu, Hongzhi Zhang, Guoquan Zhang. Super-bunched focusing with chirped random-phase gratings[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(4): 04000503.