Highly nonclassical photon statistics in parametric down-conversion
- 20 March 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 73 (3) , 033814
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.73.033814
Abstract
We use photon counters to obtain the joint photon-counting statistics from twin-beam nondegenerate parametric down-conversion, and we demonstrate directly, and with no auxiliary assumptions, that these twin beams are nonclassical.Keywords
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