Density Matrices of Pulsed Quantum Light

Abstract:Pulsed light is represented by density matrices whose correlation functions have different properties of stationarity and coherence. We show that these density matrices yield equivalent measurement results after accounting for finite detection times. This in turn reveals a physical meaning to the length of a quantization cavity and explains the origin of the physical spectrum for pulsed light. By generalizing the density matrices for pulsed Gaussian states of light, we can describe pulsed light of varying statistics in the same basis and relate the photocount rate to the pulse spectrum.

Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

arXiv:2609.38009 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2609.38009v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.38009 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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