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Recent widely discussed applications in quantum information and quantum cryptography require radiation sources able to produce a fixed number of photons. In this paper we review the work performed in our laboratory to produce such fields on demand. One setup described is based on the micromaser operated under the conditions of a trapping sate. The second device uses a single ion in an optical cavity.
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Brattke, S., Guthöhrlein, G.R., Keller, M., Lange, W., Varcoe, B., Walther, H. (2003). Generation of photon number states by cavity quantum electrodynamics. In: Bigelow, N.P., Eberly, J.H., Stroud, C.R., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8907-9_34
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