Homodyne measurement of average photon number
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Webb, J. G.; Ralph, T. C.; Huntington, E. H.
- Source
- 2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on. :1-2 May, 2006
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics
Noise
Optical variables measurement
Elementary particle vacuum
Detectors
Frequency measurement
Amplitude modulation
(030.5260) Photon Counting
(270.5570) Quantum Detectors
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-9004
Homodyne measurement of mean photon number within an optical sideband is performed and discussed. Comparison with single photon detector data illustrates the versatility of the technique and supports a Quantum Mechanical description of vacuum noise.