Intermediate number coherent state of the quantized radiation field

Abstract

We introduce an intermediate state of the light field which is alternative to the binomial state introduced by Stoler et al., thus interpolating bet seen the number state \n > and the coherent state \alpha >. A comparison between their properties shows that the amount of nonclassical effects obtained in the present state can be greater than that obtained in the binomial state, depending on the values of the interpolating parameters and the excitations n and <(n)over bar (alpha)>. Quantum coherence effect exhibited by the present state is also discussed.