Damping Law of Photocount Distribution in a Dissipative Channel
Hong-Yi Fan, Sen‐Yue Lou, Liyun Hu · Chinese Physics Letters · 2013
For a dissipative channel governed by the master equation of the density operator describing the photon loss, we find that the photocount distribution formula at time t can be related to the initial photocount distribution by replacing the efficiency of the detector ξ with ξe −2κt , as if the quantum efficiency ξ of the detector becomes ξe −2κt . This law greatly simplifies the theoretical study of the photocount distribution for quantum optical fields.