Photon-number discrimination without a photon counter and its application to reconstructing non-Gaussian states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Chrzanowski, H M ^a,b   Bernu, J ^a,b   Sparkes, B M ^a,b   Hage, B ^a,b   Lund, A P ^a,c   Ralph, T C ^a,d   Lam, P K ^a,b   Symul, T ^a,b  

^a Griffith University   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL MEASUREMENTS; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; GAUSSIAN STATE; HOMODYNE DETECTION; MEAN VALUES; NON-GAUSSIAN; NON-GAUSSIAN STATE; NON-LINEARITY; PHOTON COUNTERS; PHOTON COUNTING; SQUEEZED VACUUM STATE;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC);

PHOTONS;

EID: 82455174856     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.050302     Document Type: Article

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