Photon states from propagating complex electromagnetic fields
JOSA B, Vol. 24, Issue 4, pp. 922-927 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.24.000922
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Abstract
A wave function for single- and many-photon states is defined by associating photons with different momenta with different spectral and polarization components of the classical, generally complex, electromagnetic field that propagates in a definite direction. When each spectral component of the classical field is scaled to the square root of the photon energy, the appropriately normalized photon wave function acquires the desired interpretation of probability density amplitude, in contradistinction to the Riemann–Silberstein wave function that can be considered the amplitude of the photon probability energy density.
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OCIS Codes
(000.1600) General : Classical and quantum physics
(270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics
(270.5580) Quantum optics : Quantum electrodynamics
ToC Category:
Quantum Optics
History
Original Manuscript: June 15, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: November 3, 2006
Published: March 15, 2007
Citation
Daniela Dragoman, "Photon states from propagating complex electromagnetic fields," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 922-927 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-24-4-922
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