Abstract
For one-mode light described by the Wigner function of a generic Gaussian form with five real parameters, the photon distribution function is obtained explicitly in terms of the Hermite polynomial of two variables. The effective formulas reducing the two-dimensional Hermite polynomials to the classical (one-dimensional) orthogonal polynomials are given. The first and the second statistical moments of the photon distribution function are calculated. The generating function for the photon distribution is discussed. Various special cases, including the shifted thermal states, correlated and squeezed states, coherent states, etc., are considered.
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