Field fluctuations measured by interferometry
Roy J. Glauber, Luis A. Orozco, Karl Vogel, Wolfgang P. Schleich, HERBERT WALTHER · Physica Scripta · 2010
We derive the complete photon count statistics of an interferometer based on two beam splitters. As a special case we consider a joint intensity–electric field measurement. Our approach is based on the transformation properties of state vectors as well as field operators at a beam splitter