High-visibility intensity interference and ghost imaging with pseudo-thermal light

Abstract

Abstract We consider higher-order intensity correlations in thermal light and show that they can be used for observing high-visibility interference of the Hanbury Brown–Twiss-type as well as high-visibility ghost imaging. Experimental results are obtained for third- and fourth-order intensity interference, by processing images made with a digital photographic camera. Keywords: intensity correlation functionsthermal lightmulti-photon interferenceghost imaging Acknowledgements This work was supported in part by the joint grant #06-02-39015 of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC), by the RFBR grant #06-02-16393, and by the NNSFC grants #60578029 and #10674174.