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IX.—Possible Applications of Coincidence Counter Techniques in Optical Intensity Correlation Studies*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

R. M. Sillitto
R. M. Sillitto
Affiliation:
Department of Natural Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
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Methods which are widely used in the mathematical analysis of random noise are used here to obtain expressions for the coincidence-counting rates which could be obtained in studies of the intensity correlations between plane-polarized, parallel beams of nearly monochromatic light. It is shown that, with presently available circuit techniques, delayed coincidence measurements could provide information about the breadths of lines radiated by atomic beam light sources, and in prompt coincidence experiments it should be possible to observe interference between beams of incoherent light from sources whose line widths are comparable with those of the Hg198 electrodeless discharge.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , 1962 , pp. 93 - 110
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1962

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