Direct Probing of Quantum Phase Space by Photon Counting

Details Direct Probing of Quantum Phase Space by Photon Counting Direct Probing of Quantum Phase Space by Photon Counting

1996-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/atom-ph/9603003v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4344 (1996)

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Atomic Physics

4 pages REVTeX, uses pstricks.sty. Replaced by the final published version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4344

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 non--unit photodetector efficiency are analyzed.

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