Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2002-04-18
Phys. Rev. A 66, 043803 (2002)
Physics
Quantum Physics
18 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.66.043803
We develop a multimode theory of direct homodyne measurements of quantum optical quasidistribution functions. We demonstrate that unbalanced homodyning with appropriately shaped auxiliary coherent fields allows one to sample point-by-point different phase space representations of the electromagnetic field. Our analysis includes practical factors that are likely to affect the outcome of a realistic experiment, such as non-unit detection efficiency, imperfect mode matching, and dark counts. We apply the developed theory to discuss feasibility of observing a loophole-free violation of Bell's inequalities by measuring joint two-mode quasidistribution functions under locality conditions by photon counting. We determine the range of parameters of the experimental setup that enable violation of Bell's inequalities for two states exhibiting entanglement in the Fock basis: a one-photon Fock state divided by a 50:50 beam splitter, and a two-mode squeezed vacuum state produced in the process of non-degenerate parametric down-conversion.
Banaszek Konrad
Dragan Andrzej
Radzewicz Czeslaw
Wodkiewicz Krzysztof
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