Determination of the Wigner function from photon statistics
Abstract
We present an experimental realisation of the direct scheme for measuring the Wigner function of a single quantized light mode. In this method, the Wigner function is determined as the expectation value of the photon number parity operator for the phase space displaced quantum state.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 1999
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.quant-ph/9904089
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/9904089
- Bibcode:
- 1999quant.ph..4089B
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages LaTeX, contribution to proceedings of 6th central-european workshop on quantum optics