Photon number states via iterated photon addition in a loop

Barna Mendei; Gábor Homa; Péter Ádám; Mátyás Koniorczyk

Photon number states via iterated photon addition in a loop

Quantum Physics 2024-06-28 v1

Authors: Barna Mendei , Gábor Homa , Péter Ádám , Mátyás Koniorczyk

Abstract

We consider the probabilistic generation of time-bin photon number states from a train of single photon pulses. We propose a simple interferometric feedback loop setup having a beam splitter and a possibly non-idel detector. This Hong-Ou-Mandel type scheme implements iterated photon additions. Our detailed study shows that up to 4 photons this simple setup can provide reasonable success probabilities and fidelities.

Keywords

quantum optics

Cite

@article{arxiv.2406.19207,
  title  = {Photon number states via iterated photon addition in a loop},
  author = {Barna Mendei and Gábor Homa and Péter Ádám and Mátyás Koniorczyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19207},
  year   = {2024}
}

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