Quantum polarization characterization and tomography
Quantum Physics
2015-06-11 v1 Optics
Abstract
We present a complete polarization characterization of any quantum state of two orthogonal polarization modes, and give a systematic measurement procedure to collect the necessary data. Full characterization requires measurements of the photon number in both modes and linear optics. In the situation where only the photon-number difference can be determined, a limited but useful characterization is obtained. The characteristic Stokes moment profiles are given for several common quantum states.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1210.1680,
title = {Quantum polarization characterization and tomography},
author = {Jonas Soderholm and Gunnar Bjork and Andrei B. Klimov and Luis L. Sanchez-Soto and Gerd Leuchs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.1680},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
18 pages, 1 eps-color figures. To be published in New Journal of Physics (Focus Issue on Quantum Tomography)