Quantum-optical catalysis by means of a single photon
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers (2002)
Abstract:
We convert coherent states of light into nonclassical coherent superpositions of the vacuum and the single-photon states via conditional measurements on a beamsplitter, employing single photons as "catalysts": they facilitate the conversion without being consumed.Ultrasensitive pulsed, balanced homodyne detector: application to time-domain quantum measurements.
Optics Letters Optica Publishing Group 26:21 (2001) 1714-1716
Nonclassical character of statistical mixtures of the single-photon and vacuum optical states
(2001)
Nonlinear Optical Studies of Surface Structures of Rubbed Polyimides and Adsorbed Liquid Crystal Monolayers
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Taylor & Francis 364:1 (2001) 427-434
Quantum State Reconstruction of the Single-Photon Fock State
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 87:5 (2001) 050402