Production of superpositions of coherent states in traveling optical fields with inefficient photon detection

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Jeong, H ^a   Lund, A P ^a   Ralph, T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT-STATE SUPERPOSITIONS (CSSS); SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES; SQUEEZED SINGLE PHOTONS;

LIGHT EMISSION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 27144472985     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.013801     Document Type: Article

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