Assessing the Polarization of a Quantum Field from Stokes Fluctuation

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2010-04-19

arxiv.org/abs/1004.3283v1

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Quantum Physics

4 pages, 2 figures. Comments welcome.

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We propose an operational degree of polarization in terms of the variance of the projected Stokes vector minimized over all the directions of the Poincar\'e sphere. We examine the properties of this degree and show that some problems associated with the standard definition are avoided. The new degree of polarization is experimentally determined using two examples: a bright squeezed state and a quadrature squeezed vacuum.

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