Department of Physics, Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875, China
Abstract:
This paper reports that when an intense extraordinary-polarized laser beam
illuminates a photorefractive BaTiO3 crystal, the dynamic beam fanning light is
formed to be a thermal-like light source with a long correlation time and wide
spectral bandwidth. The experimental results of the first- and second-order
double-slit interference with such photorefractive fanning light source, can be
understood with the theoretical simulation in terms of Hanbury-Brown and Twiss
effect.