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Journal of the European Optical Society Rapid Publications

Joint probability distributions for optical parametric down-conversion

Jan Peřina, J. Křepelka

Published Jan 1, 2006• 4 citations
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Abstract

We derive multi mode joint generating functions, photon-number distributions, integrated-intensity distributions and related quantities for spontaneous and stimulated parametric down-conversion in relation to experiments.
DOI
10.2971/jeos.2006.06002

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