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Synthesis and tomographic characterization of the displaced Fock state of light

A. I. Lvovsky, S. A. Babichev

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0202163

Abstract

Displaced Fock states of the electromagnetic field have been synthesized by overlapping the pulsed optical single-photon Fock state |1> with coherent states on a high-reflection beamsplitter and completely characterized by means of quantum homodyne tomography. The reconstruction reveals highly non-classical properties of displaced Fock states, such as negativity of the Wigner function and photon number oscillations. This is the first time complete tomographic reconstruction has been performed on a highly non-classical optical state.

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