DIRECT SAMPLING OF THE SUSSKIND-GLOGOWER PHASE DISTRIBUTIONS

Coarse-grained phase distributions are introduced that approximate to the Susskind-Glogower cosine and sine phase distributions to any desir ed degree of accuracy. The integral relations between the phase distri butions and the phase-parametrized field-strength distributions observ able in balanced homodyning are derived and the integral kernels are a nalyzed. It is shown that the phase distributions can be directly samp led from the field-strength distributions which offers the possibility of measuring the Susskind-Glogower cosine and sine phase distribution s with sufficiently high precision. Numerical simulations are performe d to demonstrate the applicability of the method.