Date of Graduation

8-2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Physics (MS)

Degree Level

Graduate

Department

Physics

Advisor/Mentor

Vyas, Reeta

Committee Member

Singh, Surendra P.

Second Committee Member

Oliver, William F. III

Third Committee Member

Kumar, Pradeep

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.

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