We propose a class of nonlinear coherent states which are experimentally feasible in cavity or ion-trap quantum electrodynamics. These quantum field states arise from a new type of photon addition and subtraction based on London phase operators, also known as Susskind–Glogower operators, that just displaces the mean photon number without scaling the photon distribution.
Generating “squeezed” superpositions of coherent states using photon addition and subtraction