Determination of a Small Photon Number by Statistical Amplifying Transients

Arecchi, F. T.; Meucci, R.; Roversi, J. A.

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The first observation of a statistical spread in the leading edge of a transient He-Ne laser pulse was associated with the appearance of a large peak in the variance of the transient photon number distribution1. This fact was explained in terms of an approximately deterministic decay out of a macroscopic unstable state, to be averaged over the statistical distribution of the initial states². The assumption of deterministic evolution neglected the role of fluctuations along the build-up with respect to the initial ones. A quest for a discrimination between fluctuations on the initial condition and those along the path led to a new observation method, based on the statistics of passage times at a given threshold ^3,4,5.

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Present address: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, S.P., Brazil

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Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, 50125, Firenze, Italy
F. T. Arecchi, R. Meucci & J. A. Roversi
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Arecchi, F.T., Meucci, R., Roversi, J.A. (1989). Determination of a Small Photon Number by Statistical Amplifying Transients. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VI. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0847-8_12

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