Sub-Poissonian-light generation by postselection from twin beams

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 19387-19394

  Perina Jr , Jan ^a   Haderka, Ondrej ^a   Michálek, Václav ^b  

^a Palacký University   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BEAM CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTEGRATED INTENSITIES; INTENSIFIED CCD; NEGATIVE VALUES; PHOTON NUMBERS; QUANTUM DETECTION EFFICIENCY; SUB-POISSONIAN PHOTON-NUMBER STATISTICS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84881529682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.019387     Document Type: Article

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