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American Physical Society, Physical Review A, 5(70), 2004

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.70.053821

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Tomographic reconstruction of the single-photon Fock state by high-frequency homodyne detection

Journal article published in 2004 by Alessandro Zavatta ORCID, Silvia Viciani ORCID, Marco Bellini
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Abstract

A single-photon Fock state has been generated by means of conditional preparation from a two-photon state emitted in the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion. A recently developed high-frequency homodyne tomography technique has been used to completely characterize the Fock state by means of a pulse-to-pulse analysis of the detectors' difference photocurrent. The density matrix elements of the generated state have been retrieved with a final detection efficiency of about 57%. A comparison has been performed between the phase-averaged tomographic reconstructions of the Wigner function as obtained from the measured density-matrix elements and from a direct Abel transform of the homodyne data. The ability of our system to work at the full repetition rate of the pulsed laser (82 MHz) substantially simplifies the detection scheme, allowing for more ``exotic'' quantum states to be generated and analyzed. ; Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures