Unbalanced Homodyne Correlation Measurements

作者:Kuehn B*; Vogel W
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2016, 116(16): 163603.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.163603

摘要

A method is introduced that allows one to measure normal-ordered moments of the displaced photon-number operator up to higher orders, without the need of photon-number resolving detectors. It is based on unbalanced homodyne correlation measurements, with the local oscillator being replaced by a displaced dephased laser. The measured moments yield a simple approximation of quasiprobabilities, representing the full quantum state. Quantum properties of light are efficiently certified through normal-ordered observables directly accessible by our method, which is illustrated for a weakly squeezed vacuum and a single-photon-added thermal state.

  • 出版日期2016-4-19