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Direct Probing of Quantum Phase Space by Photon Counting
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We propose a very simple experimental setup to measure, via photon counting, the overlap of the Wigner functions characterizing two single mode light beams. We show that this scheme can be applied to determine directly the phase space quasiprobability distribution of the single mode field and in a certain limit the Wigner function can be measured without use of tomographic reconstruction algorithms. The deleterious effects of nonunit photodetector efficiency are analyzed.
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- Authors
- Banaszek, K., & Wódkiewicz, K.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1996-06-03
- Volume
- 76
- Issue
- 23
- Pages
- 4344-4347
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2004357503
- Cited by
- 340
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 37.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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