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Physical Review A

Reconstruction of the state of the radiation field in a cavity through measurements of the outgoing field

Marcelo França Santos, L. G. Lutterbach, S. M. Dutra, Nicim Zagury, L. Davidovich

Published Feb 14, 2001• 19 citations
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Abstract

We establish the relation between the Wigner function of a field emerging from a cavity, determined through pulsed homodyne tomography, and the phase-space distribution of the original field in the cavity. We show that the reconstructed Wigner function of the outgoing field is equivalent to generalized phase-space distributions of the initial cavity field, the original Wigner distribution being obtained when there is perfect mode matching between the outgoing field and the homodyning pulse.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.63.033813

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