Sub-Poissonian photocurrent statistics: Theory and undergraduate experiment

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 492-500

  Funk, A C ^a,b   Beck, M ^a,c  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0031507145     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18577     Document Type: Article

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3. 2〉 denotes its variance.
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17. This solution is not unique, there are an infinite number of solutions corresponding to different phases of the output fields. Here, we are only concerned with the magnitudes of the fields, so we are free to choose a particular phase which makes t and r real numbers.
18. For a copy of the circuit diagram, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Mark Beck, Dept. of Physics, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362.
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