Local sampling of phase-space distributions by cascaded optical homodyning
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 59 (1) , R39-R42
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.59.r39
Abstract
We propose the determination of phase-space distributions of optical fields by cascaded optical homodyning, where phase-randomized balanced homodyning is used for measuring the output photon-number statistics of an unbalanced homodyne detection scheme. The phase-space point of interest is controlled by the complex amplitude of the local oscillator and a universal sampling function is sufficient for mapping the measured quadrature statistics onto the phase-space distribution.Keywords
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