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Frontiers in Optics

Photo-detection wait time distributions for light from degenerate parametric oscillator

Reeta Vyas, Luis F. Morales Bultron, Surendra Singh

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

Analytic expressions for conditional and unconditional wait-time distributions for the n-th photo-detection are derived for the light from a degenerate parametric oscillator and subthreshold laser, in the small photon number regime where quantum effects dominate.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2023.jtu5a.46

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