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Chapter 7: Nonclassical Light

Chapter 7: Nonclassical Light

pp. 191-256

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, Lehman College, City University of New York, , Imperial College London and the UK National Physical Laboratory
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In this chapter we discuss nonclassical states of light. These include squeezed states of light, states with sub-Poissonian statistics, two-mode squeezed states, photon antibunching, superpositions of coherent states of light –– these being the Schrödinger-cat states. Also discussed in this chapter are the nonclassical states generated by the addition and subtraction of photons.

Keywords

  • squeezed light
  • photon antibunching
  • two-mode squeezed vacuum
  • pair coherent states
  • photon addition and subtraction
  • Schrödinger-cat states

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