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Quantum State Engineering of Light with Continuous-wave Optical Parametric Oscillators
Published on: May 30, 2014
Quantum reconstruction of an intense polarization squeezed optical state
Ch Marquardt1, J Heersink, R Dong
1Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics (Max Planck Research Group), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Günther-Scharowsky Strasse 1, Building 24, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
Abstract:
We perform a reconstruction of the polarization sector of the density matrix of an intense polarization squeezed beam starting from a complete set of Stokes measurements. By using an appropriate quasidistribution, we map this onto the Poincaré space, providing a full quantum mechanical characterization of the measured polarization state.
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