ON A NEW INTERMEDIATE STATE OF THE QUANTIZED RADIATION-FIELD

In a recent paper we introduced the intermediate number-phase state (I NPS) of the quantized radiation field, which interpolates between the number state \n] and the phase state \theta]. Various non-classical pr operties of the light field in this state (sub-Poissonian statistics, antibunching and squeezing effects) were investigated. Here, looking f or a criterion characterizing the INPS as a 'good' interpolating state , we investigate the influence of the interpolating parameters upon th e variances and uncertainty relation involving the number and phase op erators in this state.