Noise Reduction in the Measurement of Light Intensity by means of Correlated Twin Photons
Kazuyuki Muroo, Yoshihiro Kajimura Yoshihiro Kajimura, Yoshitaka Takubo
We investigated statistical fluctuations in the numbers of photons contained in the correlated twin photon beams generated by an optical parametric process. The coincidence between the signal- and idler-photoelectron pulses from a pair of avalanche photo-diodes was measured. The measured fluctuation in the number of signal-photons coinciding with idler-photons was equal to the standard deviation of a binomial distribution and was smaller than that of a Poisson distribution. We determined that even when the quantum efficiency of the photon detectors was much lower than unity, the uncertainty in the number of photons obtained with the twin photon beams was smaller, by a factor of 1/√2, than that with a classical light beam.
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics•Jun 1, 2001•0 citations