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Published February 13, 2017 | Published
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Distributed angular double-slit interference with pseudo-thermal light

Abstract

We propose and perform an interference experiment involving a distributed angular double-slit and the orbital angular momentum (OAM) correlations of thermal light. In the experiment, two spatially separated angular apertures are placed in two correlated light beams generated by splitting the thermal light beam via a beam splitter. The superposition of the two spatially separated slits constitutes an angular double-slit in two-photon measurements. The angular interference pattern of the distributed double-slit is measured even though each beam interacts with a different part of the object. This scheme allows us to discriminate among different angular amplitude objects using a classical incoherent light source. This procedure has potential applications in remote sensing or optical metrology in the OAM domain.

Additional Information

Published by AIP Publishing. (Received 6 January 2017; accepted 2 February 2017; published online 14 February 2017) This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11504337), the Funding of China Scholarship Council (Grant No. 1508130007), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 53200859334).

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