Reply to ‘‘Comment on ‘Phase properties of the quantized single-mode electromagnetic field’’
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 43 (5) , 2579-2580
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.43.2579
Abstract
We assess the objections raised by Ma and Rhodes [preceding Comment, Phys. Rev. A 43, 2576 (1991)]. These objections seem to arise from a misinterpretation of our theory and a confusion between states of precise phase and states of precise field.Keywords
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