Optimal time-resolved photon number distribution reconstruction of a cavity field by maximum likelihood

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sayrin, C ^a   Dotsenko, I ^a   Gleyzes, S ^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

CAVITY FIELD; DENSITY OPERATORS; DIAGONAL ELEMENTS; HIGH-Q CAVITY; NUMBER STATE; PHOTON NUMBERS; PHOTON-NUMBER DISTRIBUTION; POSITIVE-OPERATOR-VALUED MEASURES; QED EXPERIMENTS; QUANTUM FEEDBACK; QUANTUM NONDEMOLITION MEASUREMENTS; STATE RECONSTRUCTION; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTONS;

ATOMS; EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 84870398357     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/115007     Document Type: Article

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