Non-Classical States of the Electromagnetic Field
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physica Scripta
- Vol. T12 (T12) , 34-42
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/1986/t12/005
Abstract
A number of general features of non-classical states of light are reviewed. The phenomena of photon antibunching and sub-Poissonian photon statistics are then treated in more detail, including the experimental observations. Quantum effects in spontaneous parametric down-conversion are discussed, and recent experiments dealing with the time intervals between down-converted photons, with the intensity dependence of the cross-correlation function, and with the detection of a localized one-photon state are described. Finally, some quantum effects in the interference of light are discussed.Keywords
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