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A research field within general optical physics concerned with light and its material interaction: where light is modelled by full quantum mechanical description.

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Experimental $g^{(2)}$ measurement

I'm in need to find a paper/book that discusses how to obtain the $g^{(2)}$ correlation of a certain emitter when using an Hanbury Brown Twiss interferometer (HBT) with two single photon avalanche dio …
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Gaining some intuition for thermal sources producing photon bunching

This is a very easy question: I'm in need of some intuition on the fact that, e.g. thermal sources, produce bunched photons. It is very easy to "undertand", without any quantum mechanics, why single e …
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Question about Homodyne detection

In this Review of modern physics, section "II. A.", optical homodyne detection is briefly reviewed. In equation (9), it is stated that the fields after the beam splitter are $$E_{1}=\frac{E_\text{L}+ …
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