Continuous-variable optical quantum-state tomography
Top Cited Papers
- 16 March 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Reviews of Modern Physics
- Vol. 81 (1), 299-332
- https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.81.299
Abstract
This review covers the latest developments in continuous-variable quantum-state tomography of optical fields and photons, placing a special emphasis on its practical aspects and applications in quantum-information technology. Optical homodyne tomography is reviewed as a method of reconstructing the state of light in a given optical mode. A range of relevant practical topics is discussed, such as state-reconstruction algorithms (with emphasis on the maximum-likelihood technique), the technology of time-domain homodyne detection, mode-matching issues, and engineering of complex quantum states of light. The paper also surveys quantum-state tomography for the transverse spatial state (spatial mode) of the field in the special case of fields containing precisely one photon.Keywords
Other Versions
This publication has 100 references indexed in Scilit:
- Photon wave functions, wave-packet quantization of light, and coherence theoryNew Journal of Physics, 2007
- Entanglement and conservation of orbital angular momentum in spontaneous parametric down-conversionPhysical Review A, 2004
- Nonclassical character of statistical mixtures of the single-photon and vacuum optical statesPhysical Review A, 2002
- A variable lateral-shearing Sagnac interferometer with high numerical aperture for measuring the complex spatial coherence function of lightJournal of Modern Optics, 2000
- Improvement on teleportation of continuous variables by photon subtraction via conditional measurementPhysical Review A, 2000
- Sampling of photon statistics and density matrix using homodyne detectionOptics Communications, 1996
- Homodyne detection in a photon counting applicationJournal of Modern Optics, 1996
- Photon wave functionsPhysical Review A, 1995
- Measurability of the spin density matrixAnnals of Physics, 1968
- On the Quantum Correction For Thermodynamic EquilibriumPhysical Review B, 1932