Generation of arbitrary quantum states of traveling fields

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1658-1661

  Dakna, M ^a   Clausen, J ^a   Knoll L ^a   Welsch, D G ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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EID: 0000417330     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.1658     Document Type: Article

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