Abstract
Abstract We investigate the contribution of four-photon bunching term in fourth-order double-slit interference intensity correlation based on two different detection schemes with a pseudo-thermal light source. It is clearly demonstrated that the resolution of intensity correlation is significantly enhanced by using of double-slit in both fourth-order and third-order intensity correlation. Meanwhile, the visibility of fourth-order correlation can be dramatically improved in contrast to the third-order due to the four-photon bunching term by contributing in the visibility of fourth-order correlation. The position and full width at half maximum of interference peaks of fourth-order intensity correlation are same as third-order. We also use two different scanning approaches to change the resolution and visibility of interference intensity correlation. In the first detection scheme, we scan three reference detectors along the same orientation and speed. In second detection scheme we scan two of three reference detectors in the same orientation, and speed of one reference detector is twice that of the other, and simultaneously moving the other two reference detectors with opposite orientation but identical speed. Those investigations can also be promoted to high order intensity correlation of thermal light.
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