Investigation of the photon statistics of parametric fluorescence in a traveling-wave parametric amplifier by means of self-homodyne tomography.
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 23 (17) , 1393-1395
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.23.001393
Abstract
Photon-number distributions for parametric fluorescence from a nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier are measured with a novel self-homodyne technique. These distributions exhibit the thermal-state character predicted by theory. However, a difference between the fluorescence gain and the signal gain of the parametric amplifier is observed. We attribute this difference to a change in the signal-beam profile during the traveling-wave pulsed amplification process.Keywords
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