2018-06-142018-06-142004-06MAIA, L. P. A.; BASEIA, B.; AVELAR, A. T.; MALBOUISSON, J. M. C. Sculpturing coherent states to get highly excited Fock states for stationary and travelling fields. Journal of Optics. B. Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, Bristol, v. 6, p. 351-359, June 2004.1464-4266http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/15263An adapted sequential application of dispersive atom–field interaction is used to engineer a field in a highly excited Fock state. A few atoms are used to group into a number component all photons inside a microwave cavity which initially contains a coherent state. The scheme differs from those adding photons to an empty cavity via successive passage of resonant atoms. A conveniently equipped sequence of Mach–Zehnder interferometers is found to be the complementary scheme, extending the result for (optical) travelling waves.engAcesso AbertoQuantum state engineeringNumber statesArtigo10.1088/1464-4266/6/7/013