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Manipulation of photon statistics of highly degenerate chaotic radiation

M. Kindermann, Yu. V. Nazarov, C. W. J. Beenakker

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0107027

Abstract

Highly degenerate chaotic radiation has a Gaussian density matrix and a large occupation number of modes f . If it is passed through a weakly transmitting barrier, its counting statistics is close to Poissonian. We show that a second identical barrier, in series with the first, drastically modifies the statistics. The variance of the photocount is increased above the mean by a factor f times a numerical coefficient. The photocount distribution reaches a limiting form with a Gaussian body and highly asymmetric tails. These are general consequences of the combination of weak transmission and multiple scattering.

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