Engineering sub-Poisson light in a simple mirror and beam splitter system

TL;DR

This paper proposes a simple method to generate sub-Poisson light by controlling vacuum fluctuations using a mirror and beam splitter setup, with potential applications in quantum optics.

Contribution

It introduces a mode matching technique for vacuum and light fields and demonstrates how inserting a mirror can reduce light intensity fluctuations to produce sub-Poisson light.

Findings

Vacuum fluctuations can be manipulated with a mirror-beam splitter system.

Light intensity fluctuations are reduced by mirror insertion.

Sub-Poisson light can be achieved with appropriate detector design.

Abstract

Vacuum fluctuation, which is the intrinsic nature of an electric field can be measured via homodyne detection. Moreover, electric field intensity fluctuation are also related to vacuum fluctuations. Squeezed vacuum and sub-Poisson light can be obtained by controlling the vacuum fluctuation using noble nonlinear interaction. Based on the squeezed vacuum by inserting a mirror on the unused part of the beam splitter was proposed in 1994, we present the mode matching method for the vacuum and light fields. Light intensity fluctuations also can be reduced by inserting a mirror on the unused part of the beam splitter. To obtain sub-Poisson light as a function of the distance between the mirror and detector, a detector with a thinner active layer than the wavelength is required.