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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Generation of quantum light in a photon-number superposition

J. C. Loredo, C. Antón, B. Reznychenko, Paul Hilaire, Abdelmounaïm Harouri, C. Millet, H. Ollivier, Niccolò Somaschi, Lorenzo De Santis, Aristide Lemaître, Isabelle Sagnes, L. Lanco, Alexia Auffèves, O. Krebs, P. Senellart

Published Jan 1, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract

We generate highly pure quantum states of light in a coherent superposition of zero, one, and two photons. Such states are generated by coherently driving electrically-controlled QD-microcavity devices with a resonant laser pulses.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2019.fm3a.2

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