{"title":"The origins of quantum noise in photonics","authors":"C. Henry, R. Kazarinov","doi":"10.1109/LEOSST.1997.619216","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In summary, there are two sources of quantum noise: spontaneous currents and vacuum fluctuations. Together, they account for the stability of the atomic ground state, spontaneous emission, shot noise and optical noise in lasers and amplifiers.","PeriodicalId":344325,"journal":{"name":"1997 Digest of the IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting: Vertical-Cavity Lasers/Technologies for a Global Information Infrastructure/WDM Components Technology/Advanced Semiconductor Lasers and Application","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"1997 Digest of the IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting: Vertical-Cavity Lasers/Technologies for a Global Information Infrastructure/WDM Components Technology/Advanced Semiconductor Lasers and Application","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOSST.1997.619216","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In summary, there are two sources of quantum noise: spontaneous currents and vacuum fluctuations. Together, they account for the stability of the atomic ground state, spontaneous emission, shot noise and optical noise in lasers and amplifiers.