Optical Fock-state synthesizer
- 17 April 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 61 (5) , 053817
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.61.053817
Abstract
We suggest a tunable optical device to synthesize Fock states and their superpositions starting from a coherent source. The scheme involves an avalanche-triggering photodetector and a ring cavity coupled to a traveling wave through a cross-Kerr medium. Low quantum efficiency at the photodetector improves the synthesizing quality at the expense of reducing the synthesizing rate.Keywords
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