Invariances for states of light and their quasi-distributions Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We consider the states of a two-mode light field which are invariant under rotation of the coordinate axis. We derive the general form of Wigner, Q and P functions as well as the density matrix. On imposing further invariances we recover the results for the unpolarized radiation of different kinds.

published proceedings

  • Optics Communications

author list (cited authors)

  • AGARWAL, G., LEHNER, J., & PAUL, H.

complete list of authors

  • AGARWAL, G||LEHNER, J||PAUL, H

publication date

  • September 1996