Effects of dissipation on photon statistics and the lifetime of a pure number state
- 1 August 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 40 (3) , 1707-1708
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.40.1707
Abstract
The time evolution of photon statistics is solved for a mode of damped electromagnetic field in an arbitrary state. It is shown that the cavity dissipation changes the photon number variance but does not affect the normalized second-order correlation function. The lifetime of a pure number (Fock) state ‖m〉 is found to be only one mth of the photon lifetime.Keywords
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