Photon Number Distributions From a Diode Laser
Marc Aßmann, Georgios Roumpos, Steven T. Cundiff · The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting · 2013
We use balanced homodyne detection to extract photon number distributions of diode laser light as the laser crosses threshold. We compare the results to the semiclassical singlemode laser model, and characterize the excess noise.