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DENSITY-MATRIX; WIGNER FUNCTION; TOMOGRAPHY; LIGHT; PHASE;
REPRESENTATION; DISTRIBUTIONS; VACUUM; ATOMSPhysics;
Abstract:
We perform a reconstruction of the polarization sector of the density matrix of an intense polarization squeezed beam starting from a complete set of Stokes measurements. By using an appropriate quasidistribution, we map this onto the Poincare space, providing a full quantum mechanical characterization of the measured polarization state.