Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Suppression of quantum noise in optical physics

P. L. Knight

Published Jan 1, 1994• 0 citations

Abstract

The search for optical fields with quantum fluctuations less than that of a perfectly coherent signal has reopened questions of appropriate signatures of non-classicality. Squeezed light fields have phase dependent noise that for some phase angles can be substantially less than the normal vacuum fluctuations. Sub-Poissonian light has photon number fluctuations below those expected from naive "shot noise" considerations. In this talk, I will review the progress made in understanding non-classical light, and discuss measures of non-classicality.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_europe.1994.tutorial.e

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