Barnett, S M and Jeffers, J and Gatti, A and Loudon, R (1998) Quantum optics of lossy beam splitters. Physical Review A, 57 (3). pp. 2134-2145. ISSN 1050-2947
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The familiar input-output relations for an optical beam splitter are generalized to allow for linear absorption by the medium forming the mirror. Beam-splitter losses generally affect the noise levels detectable in experiments involving nonclassical Light. When employed to investigate two-photon interference effects, a lossy beam splitter can lead to apparent nonlinear absorption, which, in the most extreme case, leads to either both or neither of the photons being absorbed. The degree of second-order coherence of antibunched light can be maintained on transmission through the beam splitter but any amplitude squeezing in the incident light is degraded.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 31011 |
| Keywords: | electromagnetic fields, linear directional coupler, dielectrics, continuum fields, lasers, approximation, interference, propagation, light, Optics. Light |
| Subjects: | Science > Physics > Optics. Light |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics |
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| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2011 12:27 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 13:41 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/31011 |
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