Catching the elementary step of excitation of a coherent light state by a single photon

Marco Bellini; Alessandro Zavatta; Silvia Viciani

doi:10.1117/12.614366

25 August 2005 Catching the elementary step of excitation of a coherent light state by a single photon

Marco Bellini, Alessandro Zavatta, Silvia Viciani

Proceedings Volume 5893, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging III; 58930V (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.614366
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A new class of non-classical light states has been experimentally generated and their complete phase-space characterization has been achieved by quantum homodyne tomography. Such states are produced by the action of the photon creation operator on a coherent light field and are thus the result of the elementary excitation process of a classical field by a single quantum. Being intermediate between a single-photon Fock state and a coherent one, they offer the unique opportunity to closely follow the smooth evolution between the particle-like and the wave-like behavior of the light field.

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Marco Bellini, Alessandro Zavatta, and Silvia Viciani "Catching the elementary step of excitation of a coherent light state by a single photon", Proc. SPIE 5893, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging III, 58930V (25 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.614366

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