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Frontiers in Optics

High-Efficiency Optical Quantum State Engineering

Kevin T. McCusker, Paul G. Kwiat

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We discuss a novel method of efficiently producing multi-photon states using repeated spontaneous parametric downconversion. By attempting downconversion several times, we can pseudo-deterministically add photons to a mode, producing various several-photon states.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2009.jma3

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