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REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS
Volume 81, Issue 1, Pages 299-332Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.81.299
Keywords
homodyne detection; information theory; optical tomography; quantum optics; quantum theory
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- NSERC
- CFI
- CIAR
- QuantumWorks
- AIF
- NSF
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This review covers the latest developments in continuous-variable quantum-state tomography of optical fields and photons, placing a special emphasis on its practical aspects and applications in quantum-information technology. Optical homodyne tomography is reviewed as a method of reconstructing the state of light in a given optical mode. A range of relevant practical topics is discussed, such as state-reconstruction algorithms (with emphasis on the maximum-likelihood technique), the technology of time-domain homodyne detection, mode-matching issues, and engineering of complex quantum states of light. The paper also surveys quantum-state tomography for the transverse spatial state (spatial mode) of the field in the special case of fields containing precisely one photon.
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