Institut für Physik - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Max-Born-Institut
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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 (2016)
Phys. Rev. A 94, 021804(R)
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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.