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Acta Physica Sinica

CONDITION OF GENERATING PHOTON NUMBER STATE IN OPTICAL CAVITY

Zhengdong Liu, 江西师范大学物理系,南昌,330027

Published Jan 1, 1991• 4 citations
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Abstract

This paper studies the cavity field generated by injecting atoms, one at a time, initially in the excited state and operating at a one-step two-photon transition. The interesting features of photon statistical distribution in the cavity are found and discussed, the conditions of generating photon number state are shown.
DOI
10.7498/aps.40.210

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