Abstract
We report measurements of Hanbury Brown and Twiss correlation of coherent light transmitted through disordered one-dimensional photonic lattices. Although such a lattice exhibits transverse Anderson localization when a single input site is excited, uniform excitation precludes its observation. By examining the Hanbury Brown–Twiss correlation for a uniformly excited disordered lattice, we observe intensity anticorrelations associated with photon antibunching—a signature of non-Gaussian statistics. Although the measured average intensity distribution is uniform, transverse Anderson localization nevertheless underlies the observed anticorrelation.
- Received 10 July 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.021804
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