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Quantum optics

correlation between intensity fluctuations at two detectors, revealing photon bunching and allowing measurement of a light source's angular size.

In quantum optics, Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect refers to correlation between intensity fluctuations at two detectors, revealing photon bunching and allowing measurement of a light source's angular size. This meaning comes from Brown (1956) in Nature.[1]

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References

  1. Brown, R. H., & Twiss, R. Q. (1956). Correlation between Photons in two Coherent Beams of Light. Nature, 177(4497), 27-29. https://doi.org/10.1038/177027a0

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