Quantum Reconstruction of an Intense Polarization Squeezed Optical State
Christoph W. Marquardt, J. Heersink, Ruifang Dong, Maria V. Chekhova, A. B. Klimov, Luis Lorenzo Sánchez-Soto, Ulrik L. Andersen, Gerd Leuchs · Physical Review Letters · 2007
We perform a reconstruction of the polarization sector of the density matrix of an intense polarization squeezed beam starting from a complete set of Stokes measurements. By using an appropriate quasidistribution, we map this onto the Poincaré space, providing a full quantum mechanical characterization of the measured polarization state.