Quasidistributions for noncommuting cosine and sine operators

A similarity between the photon annihilation and creation operators and the Susskind-Glogower exponential phase operators motivates the introduction a nd study of quasidistributions of the cosine and sine of phase. These quasi distributions are related to the standard and antistandard orderings of tri gonometric phase operators and to the normal: antinormal, and symmetrical o rderings of the exponential phase operators. The symmetrical ordering is co nnected to an optical ideal tomography of the appropriate quasidistribution from the rotated Susskind-Glogower cosine operator.