We study a novel optical setup which is able to select a specific Fock component from a generic input state. The device allows to synthesize number states and superpositions of few number states, and to measure the photon distribution and the density matrix of a generic input signal.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9904074,
title = {Generation and Measurement of Nonclassical States by Quantum Fock Filter},
author = {G. M. D'Ariano and L. Maccone and M. G. A. Paris and M. F. Sacchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9904074},
year = {2007}
}
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7 pages LaTeX, contribution to proceedings of 6th central-european workshop on quantum optics (actaps.sty included)