Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 14, Issue 4, 040301(2016)

Thermal light subwavelength diffraction using positive and negative correlations

Mingjie Sun1、*, Xingdan He1, Mingfei Li2,3, and Ling'an Wu2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Opto-Electronic Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
  • 2Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics and Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 3Quantum Engineering Research Center, Beijing Institute of Aerospace Control Devices, China Aerospace, Beijing 100094, China
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    Schematic of setup to measure diffraction. BS, 50–50 beam splitter; C.C., coincidence counter.
    Experimental setup for measuring positive and negative correlations in diffraction.
    Experimental results of classical and subwavelength diffraction with thermal light using positive and negative correlatiosn. (a) Classical diffraction obtained with intensity correlation. (b) Subwavelength diffraction obtained with P–N correlation. (c) Comparison of classical and subwavelength diffraction in one dimension. (d) Subwavelength diffraction obtained with different correlations.
    • Table 1. SNRs and MSEs of the Diffraction Patterns

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      Table 1. SNRs and MSEs of the Diffraction Patterns

      SNR/MSEClassicalSubwavelength
      Intensity correlation49.94/0.00040165.05/0.000236
      P–N correlation56.36/0.00031571.76/0.000194
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    Paper Information

    Category: COHERENCE OPTICS AND STATISTICAL OPTICS

    Received: Oct. 23, 2015

    Accepted: Feb. 4, 2016

    Published Online: Aug. 6, 2018

    The Author Email: Mingjie Sun (Mingjie.Sun@buaa.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL201614.040301

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