Spontaneous Emission Noise in Quantum Electronics

J. Weber

The contribution of the saturation field to the noise figure of a three-level maser is calculated. It is shown that the effect is very small, under ordinary circumstances.Certain aspects of spontaneous-emission noise are considered. It is shown that the spontaneous-emission equivalent temperature for a free-electron vacuum-tube amplifier is one-half that of a maser.The possibility of eliminating spontaneous-emission noise is considered and it is concluded that more general quantum-mechanical amplifiers can in principle be constructed which will not have spontaneous-emission noise.

E. S. R. Gopal

William H. Louisell

Jie Yang, Fan Fan, Jinlu Liu +4 more

Abstract The amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise has been extensively studied and employed to build quantum random number generators (QRNGs). While the previous relative works mainly focus on the realization and verification of the QRNG system, the comprehensive physical model and randomness quantification for the general detection of the ASE noise are still incomplete, which is essential for the quantitative security analysis. In this paper, a systematical physical model for the detection and acquisition of the ASE noise with added electronic noise is developed and verified, based on which the numerical simulations are performed under various setups and the simulation results all significantly fit well with the corresponding experimental data. Then, a randomness quantification method and the corresponding experimentally verifiable approach are proposed and validated, which quantifies the randomness purely resulted from the quantum process and improves the security analysis for the QRNG based on the detection of the ASE noise. The physical model and the randomness quantification method proposed in this paper are of significant feasibility and applicable for the QRNG system with randomness originating from the detection of the photon number with arbitrary distributions.

M. W. P. Strandberg

J. Jahanpanah

The main goal of this article is to investigate the origin of spontaneous emission radiation by applying a new method. In this method, the vibrational Hamiltonian of hydrogen-like atoms (HLAs) is first constructed in accordance with the Hamiltonian of a simple harmonic oscillator. The Hamiltonian is then used to derive the vibrational motion equations of HLAs in a Heisenberg picture. The Langevin equation will ultimately be formed by adding the dissipative term and fluctuating (Langevin) force according to the fluctuation–dissipation theorem. The solution of the Langevin equation provides the exact data on the fluctuations that occur for the electron position during its rather fast vibrational oscillations. On the other hand, the fluctuations in the position of the oscillating electron, in turn, lead to the fluctuations in its potential and kinetic energies so that the appearance of the potential and kinetic noise fluxes is vulnerable. It is finally demonstrated that the potential and kinetic noise fluxes commonly act as an internal source of producing the external noise flux emitted from HLAs in the form of spontaneous emission with a Lorentzian profile. In contrast with all previous procedures, no ambient effect has been involved to describe the forming mechanism of spontaneous emission for the first time.