Abstract
The simultaneous measurement of the energy and arrival time of a single-photon packet, as well as the experimental implementation of such a measurement with the use of a parametric transformation upward in the energy (up conversion), is proposed.
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Original Russian Text © S.N. Molotkov, 2007, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 86, No. 12, pp. 901–906.