Abstract
Due to improvements in detector sensitivity, quantum noise is known to be the limiting factor of many lasers and other optical devices. In this work we present a fully quantum mechanical theory of multiwave mixing to study the effects of spontaneous emission noise on three- and four- wave mixing. The foundations of this theory have been presented in a series of papers1-3 demonstrating how such diverse topics as resonance fluorescence, saturation spectroscopy, phase conjugation, and squeezed states of light share a common origin.
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