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How can sub- and super-Poissonian statistics be distinguished from bunching and antibunching?
This is my first post here, so I apologize if there's something wrong.
I am studying quantum optics and I found myself in trouble with the difference between bunching/antibunching and super poissonian/...
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Coherence and $g^{(2)}$
We talk about how coherent light has a $g^{(2)}(\tau)=1$ and thermal light has $g^{(2)}(0)=2$. However, we can talk about the coherence length of a thermal source if we put it through a very narrow ...
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Physical significance of effective wave function
In Yanhua Shih's book on quantum optics, the coherence functions are expressed in terms of effective wave function. Here are the expressions for single photon wave packets.
To derive the coherence ...
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Photon detection rate for pure / mixed states coming from single mode point source
Let the pure states be in superposition of horizontal and vertically polarized basis states. They are arriving at the point detector one at a time. So, a pure state is $|\Psi\rangle = \alpha|V\rangle ...
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