Photon distributions for nonclassical fields with coherent components. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Nonclassical fields with coherent components generated in a large number of optical processes including losses can be characterized by a Gaussian Wigner function centered around the mean value of the field. The photon-number distributions for such fields are calculated and the numerical results are presented for a range of parameters. As a special case we give the number distributions for photons produced in down-conversion problems. We also give the analytical expression for the photoelectron distributions. 1989 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Phys Rev A Gen Phys

author list (cited authors)

  • Agarwal, G. S., & Adam, G.

citation count

  • 72

complete list of authors

  • Agarwal, GS||Adam, G

publication date

  • June 1989