New investigations of the phase distribution with variable coherence
Alain-Jérôme Fougères, J. R. Torgerson, L. Mandeļ · Optics Communications · 1994
Abstract New measurement of the probability distribution of the optical phase difference between two light beams have been carried out for different degrees of mutal coherence, when the average number of detected photons is of unity. The measurement time was made much longer than the coherence time. Good agreement with our operational theory for the quantum phase is again obtained.