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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 12, Issue 13, Pages 2816-2824Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002816
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We investigate photon statistics in the signal beam generated by frequency nondegenerate parametric downconversion both with and without a seed field along the idler direction. The experiments are performed on the signal generated in beta-barium borate by a traveling-wave pump pulse that is the frequency-tripled output of an amplified Nd:YLF picosecond laser. The high powers obtained allow us to measure the number of photons with a simple detection technique. When both signal and idler fields are initially in their vacuum states, the generated fields are mixtures of equally occupied modes with thermal photon-number statistics. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.
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