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Paper Abstract
In this paper authors discuss the inverse problem for the density operator describing a bi-modal quantum mixed states of
polarized optical field with the reduced probability density function. It is reduced because we assume that photons phase
is known - it is represented by the Dirac delta function in the probability distribution. We ask for example if it is possible
to represent an elliptically polarized plane wave in the basis of linearly polarized photons (or photons with any other
arbitrary chosen phase). Our goal is to define a reversible integral transformation in order to represent the reduced
probability density function by the density operator describing a mixed state and to analyze the uniqueness of the
solution. This problem is similar to calculating Glauber-Sudarshan function when representing a quantum mixed state in
the coherent states basis. However the integral transformation that we search is not that easy to define. It is based on
convolution and cross-correlation operations. The operator that generates this transformation is defined using the Stokes
operators.
Paper Details
Date Published: 4 May 2012
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 8440, Quantum Optics II, 84400S (4 May 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.922207
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8440:
Quantum Optics II
Thomas Durt; Victor N. Zadkov, Editor(s)
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 8440, Quantum Optics II, 84400S (4 May 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.922207
Show Author Affiliations
Lukasz Michalik, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland)
Andrzej W. Domanski, Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8440:
Quantum Optics II
Thomas Durt; Victor N. Zadkov, Editor(s)
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