Statistical Properties of Single-Mode and Two - Lasers.

Paul D. Lett

L. A. Pokrovskii

Tadashi Aoki, Katsumi Sakurai

Microscopic scattering processes are discussed for two structures of light incident on thermal particles. One is composed of two collinear light beams originating from different oscillating modes of a laser, and another is composed of two counter propagating beams originating from the same oscillating mode. A comparison of the cumulant expansions for the above two cases has allowed discerning which terms in the scattering structures led to the same statistical properties of the scattered photons. It is shown that, for the scattering of multimode-laser light, the statistical properties of scattered photons are not affected by the noncorrelating random phases of the incident laser fields but are the same as those in the case of single-mode laser light under practical scattering experiments. The factorial moments ${F}_{k}[=〈n(n\ensuremath{-}1)\ensuremath{\cdots}(n\ensuremath{-}k+1)〉]$ up to sixth order of the scattered photons were measured for various scattering situations including the above two cases, and they were found to support the theoretical results.

Hannes Risken

Eyob Alebachew Sete, C. H. Raymond Ooi

The quantum statistical properties of light emitted by a two-photon double Raman laser is investigated. Using the master equation derived in the good-cavity limit, we study the squeezing and entanglement properties of the cavity field. It turns out that the cavity radiation exhibits two-mode squeezing and entanglement in the transient as well as steady state regime for realizable parameters. We establish a connection between two-mode squeezing and entanglement that gives insight into the physical origin of these quantum features. We also discuss the interplay between the laser detuning and amplitude in modifying the properties of the cavity field.

Hannes Risken