Correlated quadratures of resonance fluorescence and the generalized uncertainty relation
- Author
- George, Thomas F.
- Published
- May 1, 1994.
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- 1 electronic document
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- Arnoldus, Henk F. and Gross, Rolf W. F.
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- Resonance fluorescence from a two-state atom has been predicted to exhibit quadrature squeezing below the Heisenberg uncertainty limit, provided that the optical parameters (Rabi frequency, detuning, laser linewidth, etc.) are chosen carefully. When the correlation between two quadratures of the radiation field does not vanish, however, the Heisenberg limit for quantum fluctuations might be an unrealistic lower bound. A generalized uncertainty relation, due to Schroedinger, takes into account the possible correlation between the quadrature components of the radiation, and it suggests a modified definition of squeezing. We show that the coherence between the two levels of a laser-driven atom is responsible for the correlation between the quadrature components of the emitted fluorescence, and that the Schrodinger uncertainty limit increases monotonically with the coherence. On the other hand, the fluctuations in the quadrature field diminish with an increasing coherence, and can disappear completely when the coherence reaches 1/2, provided that certain phase relations hold.
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- Document ID: 19950007524.
Accession ID: 95N13937.
NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, Third International Workshop on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations; p 321-329. - Terms of Use and Reproduction
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