Quantum Analysis of Subharmonic Generation Via First-Order Hamiltonian

Abstract

We have established that the mean photon number obtained employing the conventional Hamiltonian for the twin light beams with the same frequency, produced by a subharmonic generator, is half that of the twin light beams with different frequencies. In view of this, we have found it to be quite appropriate to describe the process of subharmonic generation by the same Hamiltonian regardless of whether the twin light beams have the same or different frequencies. Applying this Hamiltonian, we have calculated the photon statistics and quadrature squeezing for the signal-signal and the signal-idler modes. Obviously, this time the mean photon number of the signal-signal modes is exactly the same as that of the signal-idler modes. In addition, we have found that the maximum global quadrature squeezing of the signal-signal or the signal-idler modes is 50$\%$ below the vacuum-state level and the maximum local quadrature squeezing of the signal-signal modes is 74.9$\%$ below the same level.