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Using the optical excitation of a high-Q cavity as an example, it is shown that when light is observed at the output of this cavity, effective suppression of the photocurrent shot noise below the quantum limit is in general independent of the parameters of the stationary state of the field oscillator (in particular, it is independent of the rms photon fluctuations) inside the cavity and can occur not only at any allowed negative value but even at a positive value of the Mandel parameter. It was assumed in solving the problem that the cavity is optically excited by superimposing the radiation of a sub-Poisson laser and a laser with excess photon noise. A formal solution was obtained in terms of the kinetic equation for the density matrix of the actual fields (inside the laser cavities and the empty cavity), which is derived here on the basis of the Heisenberg-Langevin quantum equations, taking into account directed propagation of the field from the laser cavities inside the empty cavity. The resulting kinetic equation can also be used to solve other physical problems, since it is applicable to optical systems that contain, in principle, an arbitrary number of coupled cavities and interference mixers.
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Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 111, 1579–1600 (May 1997)
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Golubev, Y.M., Sokolov, I.V. & Kolobov, M.I. Possibility of suppressing quantum light fluctuations when excess photon fluctuations occur inside a cavity. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 84, 864–874 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.558224
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