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"Physicists have been manipulating single photons for several years, but now a team has modulated the time profile of a photon. Using the same optical equipment that fashions ordinary light pulses, the team molded single photons into arbitrary shapes, such as a pair of square pulses, as they describe in the 5 September Physical Review Letters. This precise control could have uses in quantum cryptography and quantum memory storage."
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I had long suspected it was possible to create photons with different sorts of waveforms (certainly, the coherence length could be adjusted by means of the formation interval.) However, unimaginative textbooks often said or implied, that a photons is fully characterized by its polarization state and energy,momentum. I don't know why I didn't hear more about the prospects and theory of photon wave-shaping before.