Optical homodyne tomography of unpolarized light

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 3275-3278

  Krahmer D S ^a   Leonhardt, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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EID: 5844376424     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.3275     Document Type: Article

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