Photon-counting statistics of squeezed states in collective resonance fluorescence
Z. Ficek, R. Tanaś, S. Kielich · Journal of Physics D Applied Physics · 1988
The photon-counting statistics of squeezed states in collective time-dependent resonance fluorescence is calculated for the homodyne detection technique. The secular approximation is applied to obtain analytical expressions for the photon-counting distribution produced by homodyning the fluorescent field and coherent radiation. Squeezing is shown to appear only in the transient regime of resonance fluorescence. The time location of squeezing is independent of the number of atoms, N, but squeezing increases with increasing N. Moreover, squeezing occurs only for a judicious choice of the phase of the local oscillator and occurs over long counting times T. The time interval T is strongly dependent on the initial atomic population. If initially all atoms are in their excited states, squeezing appears with a delay twice as long as that for initially nonexcited atoms.