Unconditional Conversion between a Single-Photon State and a Coherent-State Superposition via Squeezing Operation
Yoshichika Miwa, Jun–ichi Yoshikawa, Noriaki Iwata, Mamoru Endo, Petr Marek, Radim Filip, Peter van Loock, Akira Furusawa · 2012
We experimentally demonstrate a conversion of a single-photon state into a superposition of two weak coherent states and its inverse, via squeezing operation based on offline-prepared squeezed states, measurement and feedforward.