Observation of Sub-Poissonian Photon Statistics

R. Short, L. Mandeļ

Physical Review Letters · 1983 · 615 citations · 23 references

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Abstract

The number of photons emitted in a short time interval by a single atom in the process of resonance fluorescence is measured, and it is shown that the probability distribution of this number is sub-Poissonian.

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