Chinese Physics B
The Fresnel—Weyl complementary transformation
Chuanmei Xie, Hong-Yi Fan
Abstract
Based on the newly developed coherent-entangled state representation, we propose the so-called Fresnel—Weyl complementary transformation operator. The new operator plays the roles of both Fresnel transformation (for ( a 1 − a 2 )/√2) and the Weyl transformation (for ( a 1 + a 2 )/√2). Physically, ( a 1 − a 2 )/√2 and ( a 1 + a 2 )/√2 could be a symmetric beamsplitter's two output fields for the incoming fields a 1 and a 2 . We show that the two transformations are concisely expressed in the coherent-entangled state representation as a projective operator in the integration form.