SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENTS OF CANONICALLY CONJUGATE VARIABLES IN QUANTUM OPTICS

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LEONHARDT, U
PAUL, H
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[1] Arbeitsgruppe Nichtklassische Strahlung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 12484
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10.1080/09500349314551761
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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The well-known schemes for simultaneous measurement of canonically conjugate variables in quantum optics based on beam-splitting, amplification and heterodyning are analysed in the Heisenberg picture. It is shown that the operators representing the measured observables share a common structure. The measured phase-space probability is a non-negative smoothed Wigner function.
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