A Single-Photon Subtractor for Multimode Quantum States
Clément Jacquard, Valentin Averchenko, Young-Sik Ra, Jonathan Roslund, Yin Cai, A. Dufour, Claude Fabre, Nicolas Treps · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2016
We describe a mode-selective single-photon subtraction device based on sum-frequency generation and ultrafast pulse shaping for multimode quantum state engineering. Its essential feature is the tunability of the single-photon subtraction mode.