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Optical Phase-Space-Time-Frequency Tomography

Quantum Physics 2015-05-27 v2 Optics

Abstract

We present a new approach for constructing optical phase-space-time-frequency tomography (OPSTFT) of an optical wave field. This tomography can be measured by using a novel four-window optical imaging system based on two local oscillator fields balanced heterodyne detection. The OPSTFT is a Wigner distribution function of two independent Fourier Transform pairs, i.e., phase-space and time-frequency. From its theoretical and experimental aspects, it can provide information of position, momentum, time and frequency of a spatial light field with precision beyond the uncertainty principle. We simulate the OPSTFT for a light field obscured by a wire and a single-line absorption filter. We believe that the four-window system can provide spatial and temporal properties of a wave field for quantum image processing and biophotonics.

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@article{arxiv.1101.2657,
  title  = {Optical Phase-Space-Time-Frequency Tomography},
  author = {Paul Rojas and Rachel Blaser and Yong Meng Sua and Kim Fook Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.2657},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures

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