Burenkov, I.
, Polyakov, S.
, Gerrits, T.
, Bartley, T.
, Harder, G.
, Silberhorn, C.
, Sharma, A.
and Goldschmidt, E.
(2017),
Full statistical mode reconstruction of a light field via a photon-number resolved measurement, Physical Review A, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.053806
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Full statistical mode reconstruction of a light field via a photon-number resolved measurement
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, , , , Georg Harder, Christine Silberhorn, Ankita Sharma, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt
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We present a method to reconstruct the mode structure and optical losses of multimode conjugated optical fields using an experimentally measured joint photon-number probability distribution. We demonstrate nearly-perfect reconstruction of a multimode field comprised of several correlated modes corresponding to squeezed vacuum states and several uncorrelated thermal and poisson modes corresponding to light background based on a minimal set of assumptions. To illustrate this method, we reconstruct the mode structure of an unknown bright parametric down-conversion source.Citation
Physical Review A
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95
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bright squeezed vacuum, field mode reconstruction, loss inversion mesoscopic quantum states
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