Probing the negative Wigner function of a pulsed single photon point by point
arXiv:1010.1208 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.253603
Abstract
We investigate quantum properties of pulsed light fields point by point in phase space. We probe the negative region of the Wigner function of a single photon generated by the means of waveguided parametric down-conversion. This capability is achieved by employing loss-tolerant photon-number resolving detection, allowing us to directly observe the oscillations of the photon statistics in dependence of applied displacements in phase space. Our scheme is highly mode sensitive and can reveal the single-mode character of the signal state.
4 pages, 4 figures
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