Generation of optical coherent-state superpositions by number-resolved photon subtraction from the squeezed vacuum

被引：216

作者：

Gerrits, Thomas ^{[1
]}

Glancy, Scott ^{[1
]}

Clement, Tracy S. ^{[1
]}

Calkins, Brice ^{[1
]}

Lita, Adriana E. ^{[1
]}

Miller, Aaron J. ^{[2
]}

Migdall, Alan L. ^{[3
,4
]}

Nam, Sae Woo ^{[1
]}

Mirin, Richard P. ^{[1
]}

Knill, Emanuel ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Natl Inst Stand & Technol, Boulder, CO 80305 USA

[2] Albion Coll, Albion, MI 49224 USA

[3] NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA

[4] Univ Maryland, Joint Quantum Inst, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2010年 / 82卷 / 03期

关键词：

SCHRODINGER CATS; QUANTUM;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.82.031802

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We have created heralded coherent-state superpositions (CSSs) by subtracting up to three photons frompulse of squeezed vacuum light. To produce such CSSs at a sufficient rate, we used our high-efficiency photon-number-resolving transition edge sensor to detect the subtracted photons. This experiment is enabled by and utilizes the full photon-number-resolving capabilities of this detector. The CSS produced by three-photon subtraction had a mean-photon number of 2.75(-0.24)(+0.06) and a fidelity of 0.59(-0.14)(+0.04) with an ideal CSS. This confirms that subtracting more photons results in higher- amplitude CSSs.

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