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Quantum Optics Journal of the European Optical Society Part B

Photon statistics and moving mirrors

Sarben Sarkar

Published Dec 1, 1992• 27 citations
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Abstract

It is shown that in a Fabry-Perot cavity the general motion of a mirror from one stationary position to another generates photons even if the initial state is a vacuum. In particular the statistics of the photon states so created are super-Poissonian, non-thermal and, in certain situations, squeezed.
DOI
10.1088/0954-8998/4/6/001

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