Reconstruction of the probability density function by means of the degree of polarization for one-photon mixed states

• Authors: Lukasz Michalik , Andrzej Domanski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper the authors discuss an alternative way for reconstructing one-photon mixed states of a partially polarized optical field. The task is to represent the probability density distribution describing these kind of states with the Stokes parameters which also characterize the effective state of polarization. These parameters can be measured by means of the degree of polarization with an experimental setup containing a rotating linear polarizer and a circular polarizer. A thought experiment is presented which assumes that the measurement is undertaken on an analyzed beam coupled with a reference beam containing photons polarized in a well-known way. The method discussed in the paper is an alternative for the most commonly used quantum tomography approach.

Keywords

EN

quantum optics; photons; state reconstruction; quasiprobability function; degree of polarization

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 512-517

Dates

published

1 - 4 - 2013

online

22 - 5 - 2013

Contributors

author

Lukasz Michalik

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662, Warsaw, Poland

author

Andrzej Domanski

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-013-0185-5