Photon-number-resolved detection of photon-subtracted thermal light

We examine the photon statistics of photon-subtracted thermal light using photon-number-resolved detection. We demonstrate experimentally that the photon number distribution transforms from a Bose-Einstein distribution to a Poisson distribution as the number of subtracted photons increases. We also...

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Published inOptics letters Vol. 38; no. 13; p. 2171
Main Authors Zhai, Yanhua, Becerra, Francisco E, Glebov, Boris L, Wen, Jianming, Lita, Adriana E, Calkins, Brice, Gerrits, Thomas, Fan, Jingyun, Nam, Sae Woo, Migdall, Alan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.07.2013
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Summary:We examine the photon statistics of photon-subtracted thermal light using photon-number-resolved detection. We demonstrate experimentally that the photon number distribution transforms from a Bose-Einstein distribution to a Poisson distribution as the number of subtracted photons increases. We also show that second- and higher-order photon correlation functions can be directly determined from the photon-number-resolved detection measurements of a single optical beam.
ISSN:1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/OL.38.002171