Photon-number-resolved detection of photon-subtracted thermal light

Photon-number-resolved detection of photon-subtracted thermal light

We examine the photon statistics of photon-subtracted thermal light using photon-number-resolved detection. We demonstrate experimentally that the photon number distribution transforms from a Bose-Einstein distribution to a Poisson distribution as the number of subtracted photons increases. We also...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics letters 2013-07, Vol.38 (13), p.2171-2173
Hauptverfasser: Zhai, Yanhua, Becerra, Francisco E, Glebov, Boris L, Wen, Jianming, Lita, Adriana E, Calkins, Brice, Gerrits, Thomas, Fan, Jingyun, Nam, Sae Woo, Migdall, Alan
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Sprache:eng
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Beams (radiation)
Correlation analysis
Photons
Poisson distributions
Statistics
Transforms
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Zusammenfassung:We examine the photon statistics of photon-subtracted thermal light using photon-number-resolved detection. We demonstrate experimentally that the photon number distribution transforms from a Bose-Einstein distribution to a Poisson distribution as the number of subtracted photons increases. We also show that second- and higher-order photon correlation functions can be directly determined from the photon-number-resolved detection measurements of a single optical beam.
ISSN:0146-9592
1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/OL.38.002171