Direct Measurement of the Wigner Function of a One-Photon Fock State in a Cavity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Bertet, P ^a   Auffeves, A ^a   Maioli, P ^a   Osnaghi, S ^a   Meunier, T ^a   Brune, M ^a   Raimond, J M ^a   Haroche, S ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COHERENT LIGHT; IONIZATION; OSCILLATIONS; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; RESONANCE;

PHOTON DISTRIBUTION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0037065048     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.200402     Document Type: Article

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