20. Glauber Formulates Quantum Theory for Photons (1963)

Marvin
1 min readNov 7, 2018

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Glauber develops the theory that describes the correlations among photons in a beam. His breakthrough is to realize that, because of quantum mechanics, the arrival of one photon in the beam affects the probability of detecting a subsequent photon. His approach proves instrumental for developing new methods in optical detection.

An experiment to see the optical coherence:

Roy Glauber talks about quantum optics:

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