State Measurements with Short Laser Pulses and Lower-Efficiency Photon Detectors

Details State Measurements with Short Laser Pulses and Lower-Efficiency Photon Detectors State Measurements with Short Laser Pulses and Lower-Efficiency Photon Detectors

1996-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/atom-ph/9607001v1

J. Mod. Opt. 44 (1997) 345

Physics

Atomic Physics

13 pages, LaTeX; submitted to J. mod. Opt

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It has been proposed by Cook (Phys. Scr. T 21, 49 (1988)) to use a short probe laser pulse for state measurements of two-level systems. In previous work we have investigated to what extent this proposal fulfills the projection postulate if ideal photon detectors are considered. For detectors with overall efficiency less than 1 complications arise for single systems, and for this case we present a simple criterion for a laser pulse to act as a state measurement and to cause an almost complete state reduction.

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