Observation of photon antibunching

Takuya Hirano, Masato Koashi, K. Kono +1 more

Priyanka, Simranjot Kaur, Jawahar Lal

This paper aims to study the photons antibunching in the fundamental, Stokes and signal modes of CAHRS (coherent anti-Stokes hyper Raman scattering). The generalized interaction Hamiltonian was calculated for different conditions in the Heisenberg picture under short time approximation to observe photons antibunching in the fundamental, Stokes and signal modes of CAHRS. It has been found that antibunching in the fundamental field is dependent upon interaction time, photons number, and coupling strength of field. Third order photon antibunching is found to be nonclassical to a greater extent than second- and first-order photon antibunching for the identical pump photons count. It has been also observed that the effect of photon antibunching in Stokes and signal modes is less prominent than in the fundamental- mode. Furthermore, it is also found that antibunching will increase at short interaction timeswith the increase of depth of nonclassical behavior. Finally, the extent of photons antibunching peaks precisely where the second correlation function is lowest.

J. Wagner, P. Kurowski, W. Martienssen

David Stoler

I discuss the photon antibunching effect and point out that there exist many states which exhibit the effect and demonstrate a simple procedure for generating them mathematically. I also suggest here a possible approach to the experimental observation of the effect.

Thiago Guerreiro, Bruno Sanguinetti, Hugo Zbinden +2 more

Rupesh Singh, Dilip Kumar Giri

We studied photon antibunching in the pump and the harmonic modes of the sixth harmonic generation process. The generalized interaction Hamiltonian is solved for several particular cases in the Heisenberg picture, and the possibility of observing photon antibunching is investigated using the short-time approximation technique. It is shown that the photon antibunching in the pump field depends on the number of pump photons, the interaction time, and the coupling of the field between the modes. With the same amount of pump photons, we deduced that third-order photon antibunching is more nonclassical than second- and first-order photon antibunching. In this process, the effect of photon antibunching is not seen in the harmonic mode over pump mode. It is shown that photon antibunching is more noticeable with shorter interaction times as the depth of nonclassicality increases and the second-order correlation function decreases. The first-order Hamiltonian interaction, which stimulates both pump and harmonic fields, is demonstrated to be more nonclassical than the second-order Hamiltonian interaction. It is clear that the coherent state, or vacuum state, of a pump field with a nonzero harmonic field creates photon clusters because the pump field causes interaction, which leads to bunching effects. It is interpreted that the degree of photon antibunching is maximum in the regions where the second correlation function is minimum. Photon antibunching has been shown to be one of the quantum properties of light.