Preparing and controlling these quantum mechanical states are mature techniques in the quantum optics community. These different initial states can have a strong influence on the subsequent dynamics and on how the system's phase space is sampled. A single cavity photon mode can be described in a variety of representations. The two most common representations are the Fock basis, |n⟩, and the positional basis of the photon, |q c ⟩ (see Eq. 43 for qc ). While the Fock basis is most convenient when considering initial conditions of single Fock states, the positional basis is convenient when starting from two related types of states: coherent and squeezed-coherent states. The construction of these related states takes advantage of their property that they have the minimal positionmomentum uncertainty as allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.