Quantum homodyne tomography witha prioriconstraints
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 59 (6) , 4797-4800
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.59.4797
Abstract
I present an iterative algorithm for reconstructing the Wigner function from homodyne statistics. The proposed method, based on maximum-likelihood estimation, is capable of compensating for detection losses in a numerically stable way.Keywords
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