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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Two-Mode Photon-Number Correlations Created by Measurement-Induced Nonlinearity

Jan Philipp Höpker, Maximilian Protte, Christof Eigner, Christine Silberhorn, Polina R. Sharapova, Jan Sperling, T. Meier, Tim J. Bartley

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally complex correlations in the photon numbers of two-mode quantum states using measurement-induced nonlinearity. For this, we combine the interference of coherent states and single photons with photon sub-traction.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2022.jtu3a.17

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