Publication details
Operational formulation of homodyne detection
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| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Journal of Physics A |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0305-4470/37/29/010 |
| Field | Theoretical physics |
| Keywords | P-function; Wigner functions; correction terms; asymptotic analysis |
| Description | We obtain the standard quadrature-phase positive operator-valued measure (POVM) for homodyne detection directly and rigorously from the POVM for photon counting without directly employing the mean field approximation for the local oscillator. In addition, we obtain correction terms for the quadrature-phase POVM that are applicable for relatively weak local oscillator field strengths and typical signal states. |