Number phase uncertainty relations: verification by homodyning

Abstract

It is shown that fundamental uncertainty relations between photon number and canonical phase of a single-mode optical field can be verified by means of balanced homodyne measurement. All the relevant quantities can be sampled directly from the measured phase-dependent quadrature distribution.

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References in corpus (1)

• Direct sampling of the Susskind-Glogower phase distributions

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