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We discuss how two-photon absorption (TPA) of squeezed and coherent states of light can be detected in measurements of the transmitted light fields. Such measurements typically suffer from competing loss mechanisms such as experimental imperfections (i.e., imperfect photodetectors) and other linear scattering losses inside the sample itself, which can lead to incorrect assessments of the two-photon-absorption cross section. We evaluate the sensitivity with which TPA can be detected and find that at sufficiently large photon numbers TPA sensitivity of squeezed vacua or squeezed coherent states can become independent of linear losses that occur after the TPA event has taken place. In particular, this happens for measurements of the photon number or of the antisqueezed field quadrature, where large fluctuations counteract and exactly cancel the degradation caused by single-photon losses.
