Measuring photon antibunching from continuous variable sideband squeezing

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Apr 13;98(15):153603. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.153603. Epub 2007 Apr 13.

Abstract

We present a technique for measuring the second-order coherence function g(2)(tau) of light using a Hanbury Brown-Twiss intensity interferometer modified for homodyne detection. The experiment was performed entirely in the continuous-variable regime at the sideband frequency of a bright carrier field. We used the setup to characterize g(2)(tau) for thermal and coherent states and investigated its immunity to optical loss. We measured g(2)(tau) of a displaced-squeezed state and found a best antibunching statistic of g(2)(0)=0.11+/-0.18.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't