Abstract

The possibility of a practically total reduction of quantum photon fluctuations in cw laser radiation is discussed. This effect appears as a result of two-photon radiation absorption using a resonance transition in atoms excited from the ground state to the upper level, relaxing to the other states. For this case the possibility of induced two-photon emission is excluded, that is, the source of additional photon number fluctuations in a field mode.¹ In this process the Fock states with the photon number n ≥ 2 are continuously reduced from the coherent state of the excited field. For the large time values of interaction the Fock states |n = 0 > and |n = 1> remain in the field. The effect of spin orientations of photons of the excited field on the quantum noise reduction process for the two-photon absorption by atoms on the transitions between the S → S and S → D terms is analyzed. The possibility of transformation of coherent and thermal fields (λ ≃ 6022 Å and λ = 5787 Å) into quasi-Fock states, as a result of its two-photon resonance absorption by Na homogeneous vapor, is considered.

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