Synthesis of arbitrary Fock states via conditional measurement on beam splitters

Journal Article · Sat Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2005 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.045803· OSTI ID:20718834

Escher, B M; Baseia, B ^[1]; Avelar, A T ^[1]

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1. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal de Goias, 74.001-970, Goiania, GO (Brazil)

In a previous work [Opt. Commun. 138, 71 (1997)] a scheme was proposed to create traveling fields in the Fock state |2{sup J}>. Here we show how to extend this result to arbitrary Fock states. The procedure combines one-photon states impinging on a sequence of distinct beam splitters, each one associated with a (zero detection) single-photon photodetector, with optimization of the success probability to get the desired state. Advantages and disadvantages of this scheme are discussed.

• OSTI ID: 20718834
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 72, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.045803; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
BEAM SPLITTING
DETECTION
ENERGY LEVELS
OPTIMIZATION
PHOTON BEAMS
PHOTONS
PROBABILITY
QUANTUM MECHANICS