THE QUANTUM DESCRIPTION OF OPTICAL-PHASE

被引：38

作者：

HALL, MJW

机构：

[1] Electronics Research Laboratory, 809 TSAS, Salisbury, SA 5108

[2] Department of Theoretical Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601

来源：

QUANTUM OPTICS | 1991年 / 3卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1088/0954-8998/3/1/002

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

It is shown that the Susskind-Glogower phase states and the Pegg-Barnett Hermitian phase operator lead to equivalent descriptions of optical phase, via a (well defined) positive-operator-valued measure. Thus, the observable conjugate to the photon number exists only in a generalized sense. The Pegg-Barnett formalism is clarified and some misapplications in the literature pointed out.

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