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Photon statistics of multimode squeezed light

Jianming Huang, Prem Kumar

Published Jan 1, 1989• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this paper, we present photon‐counting distributions of multimode squeezed light of bandwidth B. By expanding the electric‐field operator into relevant modes over the counting interval T and applying the Bogoliubov transformation that generates squeezing, we calculate the counting distributions under both T≂2π/B and T≫2π/B conditions. Effect of nonunity quantum efficiency of the photodetector is also considered.

DOI
10.1063/1.38555

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Consider a photodetector characterized by two bandwidths: (i) an optical bandwidth over which it has nearly unity quantum efficiency and (ii) a much smaller electronic bandwidth, the bandwidth over which it produces beats between different frequencies. Direct onto the photodetector a light beam which is the superposition of two parts: (i) an intense, nearly monochromatic carrier wave at some carrier frequency and (ii) a squeezed state with zero mean field, which is squeezed in the broadband (multimode) sense (correlation between frequencies located symmetrically above and below the carrier frequency) within some bandwidth about the carrier. The standard statements are that, if the squeezed quadrature is in phase with the carrier (amplitude-modulation squeezing), one will see sub-Poissonian photocount statistics, and if the squeezed quadrature is out of phase with the carrier (phase-modulation squeezing), one will see super-Poissonian statistics. Bandwidth considerations impact these statements in the following way: the only part of the squeezing that is relevant for decreasing or increasing the counting noise is that part that lies within an electronic bandwidth of the carrier frequency; to see the maximum decrease or increase, one must squeeze over the entire electronic bandwidth. These conclusions require modification if the carrier wave is not sufficiently intense.
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Photon number probabilities for a single squeezed mode can exhibit sub-Poissonian or super-Poissonian statistics and can display sharp oscillations in appropriate conditions. We consider photocount probabilities for cw squeezed light occupying a single transverse mode. The squeezing spectrum is assumed to be flat over a bandwidth B, centered at optical frequency Ω/2π. We compute single-fold photoelectron probabilities for a counting interval of duration T. We proceed by decomposing the single transverse mode into a complete set of longitudinal wave-packet modes, defined in terms of prolate spheroidal wave functions. Each of these wave-packet modes is in a separate squeezed state. The Kelley-Kleiner photocount probability can then be written in terms of single-mode photon-number probabilities for these wave packet modes, which are detected with varying efficiencies. We need consider only a finite number of modes, because only about BT of the modes have high enough efficiency to contribute significantly to the photocount probability.
Theoretical and experimental results of investigations into the quantum noise of multimode laser radiation are considered. The feasibility of generating light with a photon-number-squeezed (sub-Poissonian) photon distribution by a multimode laser with a homogeneously broadened line is analyzed. The conditions of noisy and noiseless (regular) pumping are considered. Photon-number fluctuations of the net laser radiation summed over all generated modes are calculated in the approximation of equidistant equal modes, as are photon-number fluctuations in an individual mode inside and outside the resonator. Output-radiation noise spectra and photon-number fluctuations are calculated for solid-state (neodymium glass, Nd:YAG) and semiconductor lasers. Theoretical results are compared with a number of experimental data obtained for semiconductor lasers in recent years.