Annihilating and creating a photon in a travelling light field are useful building blocks for quantum-state engineering to generate a photonic state at will. In this paper, we review the relevance of these operations to some of the fundamental aspects of quantum physics and recent advances in this research.
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@article{arxiv.0807.4708,
title = {Recent developments in photon-level operations on travelling light fields},
author = {M. S. Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.4708},
year = {2009}
}