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Frontiers in Optics

Photon Number and Wait-time Distributions for Superposed Light States

Eric Seglem, Reeta Vyas

Published Jan 1, 2024• 1 citation
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Abstract

Photon-number and wait-time distributions are studied for superposed coherent states (SCS), and superposed squeezed-vacuum states (SSVS). The odd-cat (even-cat) states always show antibunching (bunching), generalized SCS show bunching and antibunching, and SSVS always show bunching.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2024.jw4a.31

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