Title
Two-point optical coherency matrix tomography
Abbreviated Journal Title
Opt. Lett.
Keywords
BEAMS; ENTANGLEMENT; POLARIZATION; Optics
Abstract
The two-point coherence of an electromagnetic field is represented completely by a 4 x 4 coherency matrix G that encodes the joint polarization-spatial-field correlations. Here, we describe a systematic sequence of cascaded spatial and polarization projective measurements that are sufficient to tomographically reconstruct G-a task that, to the best of our knowledge, has not yet been realized. Our approach benefits from the correspondence between this reconstruction problem in classical optics and that of quantum state tomography for two-photon states in quantum optics. Identifying G uniquely determines all the measurable correlation characteristics of the field and, thus, lifts ambiguities that arise from reliance on traditional scalar descriptors, especially when the field's degrees of freedom are correlated or classically entangled. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
Journal Title
Optics Letters
Volume
39
Issue/Number
8
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
2411
Last Page
2414
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0146-9592
Recommended Citation
"Two-point optical coherency matrix tomography" (2014). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 4953.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/4953
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