Converting a positive operator-valued measure to a design for a measuring instrument on the laboratory bench

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1222-1227

  Myers, John M ^a   Brandt, Howard E ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTODETECTORS; PRISMS;

HERMITIAN OPERATORS; NEUMARK'S THEOREM; TWO DIMENSIONAL POSITIVE OPERATOR VALUED MEASURE (POVM);

LIGHT MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0031268482     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/8/11/003     Document Type: Article

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