OPERATIONAL APPROACH TO THE PHASE OF A QUANTUM-FIELD - REPLY

In response to Hradil's Comment [preceding Comment, Phys. Rev. A 47, 4 532 (1993)], we point out that his prescription for putting both the c osine and sine equal to zero when the data yield n3 = n4 and n5 = n6 c an lead to meaningless results. Moreover, Hradil's Eq. (5) for obtaini ng D2 from the measured variance leads to disagreement with experiment . Finally, it is possible to obtain a continuous spectrum of phases wi th our technique.