Date of Graduation
8-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Physics (MS)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
Physics
Advisor/Mentor
Reeta Vyas
Committee Member
Surendra Singh
Second Committee Member
William Oliver
Third Committee Member
Pradeep Kumar
Keywords
Optics;Photon statistics;Quantum optics
Abstract
Multiple sources of light, including coherent light, thermal light, light from a degenerate parametric oscillation and resonance fluorescence from a two level coherently driven atom are considered for the analysis of their wait time statistics. We include the second order normalized correlation function and Mandel's Q parameter for brief discussion. A general framework to analyze the generalized conditional and unconditional wait time distributions is also obtained in order to understand the photo-count statistics of the light sources included in this work. Average and variance of wait times with respect to both unconditional and conditional wait time distribution are also obtained and briefly discussed.
Citation
Morales Bultron, L. F. (2023). Photon Counting Statistics of Classical and Quantum Light Sources. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/4905