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Hanbury Brown and Twiss anticorrelation in disordered photonic lattices

H. Esat Kondakci, Lane Martin, Robert Keil, Armando Perez-Leija, Alexander Szameit, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Bahaa E. A. Saleh
Phys. Rev. A 94, 021804(R) – Published 29 August 2016

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.

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  • Received 10 July 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.021804

©2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

H. Esat Kondakci1,*, Lane Martin1, Robert Keil2, Armando Perez-Leija3, Alexander Szameit4, Ayman F. Abouraddy1, Demetrios N. Christodoulides1, and Bahaa E. A. Saleh1

  • 1CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA
  • 2Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck 6020, Austria
  • 3Max-Born-Institut, Max-Born-Straße 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany
  • 4Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany

  • *esat@creol.ucf.edu

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Vol. 94, Iss. 2 — August 2016

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