Phys. Rev. A 72, 045803 (2005) [4 pages]Synthesis of arbitrary Fock states via conditional measurement on beam splittersReceived 3 September 2004; revised 28 June 2005; published 13 October 2005 In a previous work Opt. Commun. 138 71 (1997) a scheme was proposed to create traveling fields in the Fock state ∣2J⟩. Here we show how to extend this result to arbitrary Fock states. The procedure combines one-photon states impinging on a sequence of distinct beam splitters, each one associated with a (zero detection) single-photon photodetector, with optimization of the success probability to get the desired state. Advantages and disadvantages of this scheme are discussed. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.045803
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.045803
PACS:
42.50.Dv
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