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View SchemaAntinormally Ordered Photodetection of Continuous-mode Field
| Authors | Koji Usami, Akihisa Tomita, Kazuo Nakamura |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0402043 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402043 |
| Journal | Int. J. Quantum Inf. 2,101 (2004) |
Abstract
When the electromagnetic field is detected by stimulated emission, rather than by absorption, antinormally ordered photodetection can be realized. One of the distinct features of this photodetection scheme is its sensitivity to zero-point fluctuation due to the existence of the spontaneous emission. We have recently succeeded in experimentally demonstrating the antinormally ordered photodetection by exploiting nondegenerate stimulated parametric down-conversion process. To properly account for the experiment, the detection process needs to be treated with time-dependent and continuous-mode operators because of the broadband nature of the parametric down-conversion process and the wide spectrum of the pump that we used. Here, we theoretically analyze the antinormally ordered intensity correlation of the continuous-mode fields by pursuing the detection process in the Heisenberg picture. It is shown that the excess positive correlation due to zero-point fluctuation reduces because of the frequency-distinguishability of the two emitted photon pairs.
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