Abstract

The necessary and sufficient conditions on the gain of the linear amplifier are determined under which the light output exhibits sub-Poissonian photon statistics or squeezing. It is found that for these effects the intensity gain must not exceed 2 under any circumstances. It is also shown that there exists a weaker sufficiency condition on the gain above which all nonclassical features of the field disappear. This suggests the possibility that other quantum effects may persist in the intermediate, still unexplored, domain of operation of the amplifier.

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