A note on the measurement of phase space observables with an eight-port homodyne detector

Details A note on the measurement of phase space observables with an eight-port homodyne detector A note on the measurement of phase space observables with an eight-port homodyne detector

2007-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/0708.4094v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

8 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1080/09500340701864718

It is well known that the Husimi Q-function of the signal field can actually be measured by the eight-port homodyne detection technique, provided that the reference beam (used for homodyne detection) is a very strong coherent field so that it can be treated classically. Using recent rigorous results on the quantum theory of homodyne detection observables, we show that any phase space observable, and not only the Q-function, can be obtained as a high amplitude limit of the signal observable actually measured by an eight-port homodyne detector. The proof of this fact does not involve any classicality assumption.

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