Synthesis and tomographic characterization of the displaced Fock state of light
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Displaced Fock states of the electromagnetic field have been synthesized by overlapping the pulsed optical single-photon Fock state |1> with coherent states on a high-reflection beamsplitter and completely characterized by means of quantum homodyne tomography. The reconstruction reveals highly non-classical properties of displaced Fock states, such as negativity of the Wigner function and photon number oscillations. This is the first time complete tomographic reconstruction has been performed on a highly non-classical optical state.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0202163,
title = {Synthesis and tomographic characterization of the displaced Fock state of light},
author = {A. I. Lvovsky and S. A. Babichev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0202163},
year = {2009}
}