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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Generation of sub-Poisson distribution of light

P. S. Ramanujam, Niels Grønbech‐Jensen

Published Dec 16, 1992• 0 citations
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Abstract

We describe a modification of a nonlinear Mach-Zehnder interferorneter to produce a sub-Poissonian photon distribution and an experimental set-up to realize it. It is shown that it is possible to achieve a substantial reduction in the photon number uncertainty with a high power efficiency.
DOI
10.1117/12.636808

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