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Journal of the Optical Society of America A

Phase space tomography reconstruction of the Wigner distribution for optical beams separable in Cartesian coordinates

Alejandro Cámara, Tatiana Alieva, José A. Rodrigo, Maria Luisa Calvo

Published May 6, 2009• 23 citations
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Abstract

We propose a simple approach for the phase space tomography reconstruction of the Wigner distribution of paraxial optical beams separable in Cartesian coordinates. It is based on the measurements of the antisymmetric fractional Fourier transform power spectra, which can be taken using a flexible optical setup consisting of four cylindrical lenses. The numerical simulations and the experimental results clearly demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed scheme.

DOI
10.1364/josaa.26.001301

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