QUANTUM CHARACTERIZATION OF OPTICAL-DEVICES

Authors
DARIANO GM MACCONE L
Citation
Gm. Dariano et L. Maccone, QUANTUM CHARACTERIZATION OF OPTICAL-DEVICES, Fortschritte der Physik (Berlin. Wiley-VCH), 46(6-8), 1998, pp. 837-842
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Fortschritte der Physik (Berlin. Wiley-VCH) → ACNP
ISSN journal
00158208
Volume
46
Issue
6-8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
837 - 842
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-8208(1998)46:6-8<837:QCOO>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
We propose an experimental procedure, based on homodyne tomography, fo r measuring the matrix elements of the Liouvillian of optical devices. After describing the proposed experimental setup, we give a numerical Monte-Carlo simulation of the measurement for a laser amplifier.