Polarization tomography of bright states of light
I. N. Agafonov+, M. V. Chekhova+*, T. Sh. Iskhakov*, B. Kanseri*, G. Leuchs*×
+Department of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia
*Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
×University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Abstract
Polarization quantum tomography is performed on 4-mode squeezed
vacuum states. Three-dimensional polarization quasiprobability functions
are obtained and compared to that of an equal intensity coherent state.
These distributions clearly demonstrate the difference in the
polarization properties of the considered states. The reconstruction
quality of the coherent state distribution is also analysed by comparing
the theoretically and experimentally obtained shapes for this state.