Vasilyev M, Choi SK, Kumar P, D'Ariano GM
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3118, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2000 Mar 13;84(11):2354-7. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2354.
We report the first measurement of the joint photon-number probability distribution for a two-mode quantum state created by a nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier. The measured distributions exhibit up to 1.9 dB of quantum correlation between the signal and idler photon numbers, whereas the marginal distributions are thermal as expected for parametric fluorescence.