Title :
Quantum jumps in backaction evasion measurements of a light field component
Author :
Hofmann, H.F. ; Kobayashi, T. ; Furusawa, Akira
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Backaction evasion measurements of a quadrature component of the light field vacuum necessarily induce quantum jumps in the photon number. The correlation between measurement results and quantum jump events reveals fundamental nonclassical aspects of quantization.
Keywords :
measurement theory; mirrors; optical parametric amplifiers; photon counting; backaction evasion measurements; fundamental nonclassical aspects; light field component; light field vacuum; photon number; quadrature component; quantization; quantum jump events; quantum jumps; Elementary particle vacuum; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical sensors; Photonics Society; Physics; Probability distribution; Quantization; Signal resolution; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 2000. Technical Digest
Conference_Location :
Kaua´i-Lihue, HI, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-646-X
DOI :
10.1109/NLO.2000.883646
