Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1542801 | Optics Communications | 2006 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
We present a method to characterize the polarization state of a light field in the continuous-variable regime. Instead of using the abstract formalism of SU(2) quasidistributions, we model polarization as the superposition of two harmonic oscillators of the same angular frequency along two orthogonal axes, much in the classical way of dealing with this variable. By describing each oscillator by an s-parametrized quasidistribution, we derive in a consistent way the final function for the polarization. We compare with previous approaches and show how this formalism works in some relevant examples.
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Authors
A.B. Klimov, J. Delgado, L.L. Sánchez-Soto,