Observation of positive–negative sub-wavelength interference without intensity correlation calculation

Abstract We report an experimental demonstration of positive–negative sub-wavelength interference without correlation. Typically, people can achieve sub-wavelength effects with correlation measurement no matter by using bi-photon or thermal light sources. In this paper, we adopt a thermal light sour...

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Main Authors: Ling-Yu Dou, De-Zhong Cao, De-Qin Xu, An-Ning Zhang, Xin-Bing Song
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/388b1a09855b47aa941db280a19a6c2f
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Summary:Abstract We report an experimental demonstration of positive–negative sub-wavelength interference without correlation. Typically, people can achieve sub-wavelength effects with correlation measurement no matter by using bi-photon or thermal light sources. In this paper, we adopt a thermal light source, and we count the realizations in which the intensities of the definite symmetric points are above or below a certain threshold. The distribution of numbers of these realizations which meet the restriction will show a sub-wavelength effect. With proper constrictions, positive and negative interference patterns are demonstrated.