Silicon Photomultipliers for Detection of Photon Bunching Signatures

In this work, photon bunching from LED light was observed for the first time using SiPMs. The bunching signature was observed with a significance of \(7.3~\sigma\) using 97~hs of data. The light was spectrally filtered using a 1~nm bandpass filter and an Etalon filter to ensure temporal coherence of the field and its coherence time was measured to be \(\tau_C = (19 \pm 2)\)~ps. The impact of SiPM non-idealities in these kinds of measurements is explored, and we describe the methodology to process SiPM analog waveforms and the event selection used to mitigate these non-idealities.