Quantum reconstruction of an intense polarization squeezed optical state

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Nov 30;99(22):220401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.220401. Epub 2007 Nov 27.

Abstract

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.