Observation of Sub-Poissonian Photon Statistics
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 51 (5), 384-387
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.51.384
Abstract
The number of photons emitted in a short time interval by a single atom in the process of resonance fluorescence is measured, and it is shown that the probability distribution of this number is sub-Poissonian.Keywords
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