Fock-state preparation from thermal cavity fields by measurements on resonant atoms

G. Harel and G. Kurizki
Phys. Rev. A 54, 5410 – Published 1 December 1996
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Abstract

We show that by combining nonselective and conditional measurements on a sequence of excited two-level atoms traversing a resonant cavity, one can construct a practical strategy for compressing an arbitrary photon-number distribution (thermal distributions included) into a desired Fock state with high probability of success and low number of measurements. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

  • Received 2 July 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.54.5410

©1996 American Physical Society

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G. Harel and G. Kurizki

  • Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

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Vol. 54, Iss. 6 — December 1996

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