Abstract
Photon number and phase fluctuations and correlations in the second harmonic generation are discussed. The new Pegg-Barnett Hermitian phase formalism is used to deal with the phase properties of the field. The method of numerical diagonalization of the interaction Hamiltonian is applied to find the state evolution and, consequently, the number and phase quantum fluctuations. It is shown that the joint phase probability distribution evolves into a multi-peak structure indicating clearly the transition from the second harmonic to the down-conversion regime, and back. The evolution of all relevant quantities is illustrated graphically, and their dependence on the mean number of photons of the initial field is shown explicitly. The number-phase uncertainty product for the fundamental mode is plotted making evident the abrupt transition from the low to the high level of quantum fluctuations.
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