Experimental generation of multi-photon Fock states

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5309-5317

  Cooper, Merlin ^a   Wright, Laura J ^a   Söller, Christoph ^a   Smith, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; SCANNING;

CLASSICAL CLOCKS; FOCK STATE; HOMODYNE TOMOGRAPHY; MODE SELECTIVITY; MULTIPHOTONS; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; THREE-PHOTON;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84875160361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.005309     Document Type: Article

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