Reconstructing the Wavefunction in Quantum Optics
John A. Vaccaro, Stephen Mark Barnett · Journal of Modern Optics · 1995
The problem of reconstructing a wavefunction from probability distributions is re-examined in the context of whether a pure state vector of a single-mode optical field can be reconstructed from the photon number and phase probability distributions. An analytical solution is given for the case where the state of the mode is a superposition of a finite number of Fock states.