Squeezed Light: Time for a Coincidence?

Jasper Kranias, Christian Drago, Colin Vendromin, John E. Sipe

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations

Abstract

The Whittaker-Shannon decomposition provides a temporally localized description of squeezed light. We show an exmaple of its usefulness by calculating coincidence detection probabilities in the continuous-wave limit.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2025.jps200_30

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