The recently developed method of optical homodyne tomography (OHT) allows one to obtain the photon statistics of a single mode with single-photon resolution. Recently, we used OHT to prove the Bose Einstein distribution (BED) character of parametric fluorescence. In general, in an OHT setup, a weak signal beam is mixed on a 50/50 beamsplitter with a strong local oscillator beam of the same polarization and spatio-temporal mode. In this paper, we apply OHT to show, we believe for the first time, that ASE noise of a single mode in an EDFA is Bose-Einstein distributed.


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    Title :

    Photon statistics of a single mode of amplified spontaneous emission noise in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier


    Contributors:
    Voss, P. (author) / Vasilyev, M. (author) / Levandovsky, D. (author) / Noh, T.-G. (author) / Kumar, P. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Size :

    165881 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English