Quantum and Semiclassical Optics Journal of the European Optical Society Part B

Phase properties of excited coherent states

Ravinder Nath, Satish Kumar Muthu

Published Aug 1, 1996• 8 citations

Abstract

The phase properties of states generated by excitations on a coherent state have been studied by evaluating the expression for the phase probability distribution, using the recent formalism of Pegg and Barnett in which the existence of a Hermitian optical phase operator has been shown. This distribution has been further used to evaluate the variance of the phase operator and the number - phase uncertainty product.

DOI: 10.1088/1355-5111/8/4/012

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