Abstract

Fock states are fundamental elements in the quantum description of optical fields and a number of schemes for generating pure Fock states containing more than one photon have been proposed in the last decade or so. Despite this, however, the experimental realisation of these states remains an open problem. We present a new scheme for producing, in principle, arbitrary Fock states in a cavity containing a medium with a low-loss, giant Kerr nonlinearity such as discussed by Schmidt and Imamoglu [1].

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