Published October 2007 | Version v1
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Experimental joint signal-idler quasidistributions and photon-number statistics for mesoscopic twin beams

Creators

  • 1. Department of Optics, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 50, 772 07 Olomouc (Czech Republic)
  • 2. Joint Laboratory of Optics, Palacky University and Institute of Physics of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 17. listopadu 50a, 772 07 Olomouc (Czech Republic)
  • 3. National Laboratory for Ultrafast and Ultraintense Optical Science C.N.R.-I.N.F.M., Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como (Italy)
  • 4. Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Insubria and C.N.R.-I.N.F.M, Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como (Italy)

Description

Joint signal-idler photoelectron distributions of twin beams containing several tens of photons per mode have been measured recently. Exploiting a microscopic quantum theory for joint quasidistributions in parametric down-conversion developed earlier we characterize properties of twin beams in terms of quasidistributions using experimental data. Negative values as well as oscillating behavior in the quantum region are characteristic for the subsequently determined joint signal-idler quasidistributions of integrated intensities. Also the conditional and difference photon-number distributions are shown to be sub-Poissonian and sub-shot-noise, respectively

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.043806;
arXiv
arXiv:0708.2216v1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 043806-043806.7
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39042600
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BEAMS; CONVERSION; DISTRIBUTION; NOISE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; STATISTICS
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICS; SPECTROSCOPY

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