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Tomographic Reconstruction of a Squeezed Laser Field: Experiment and Reconstruction Algorithm

Alessandro Zavatta, Silvia Viciani, Giovanni Giacomelli, Francesco Marin

Published Oct 1, 2001• 2 citations
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Abstract

We present a self-homodyne tomography experiment for the reconstruction of the Wigner of an amplitude squeezed state generated by a semiconductor laser. We discuss in particular the topic of the reconstruction algorithm and the problem related to the adequate choice of the transformation kernel.
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10.1002/1521-3978(200110)49:10/11<967::aid-prop967>3.0.co;2-#

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