Quantum analysis of the direct measurement of light waves

In a beautiful experiment performed about a decade ago, Goulielmakis et al (2004 Science 305 1267–69) made a direct measurement of the electric field of light waves. However, they used a laser source to produce the light field, whose quantum state has a null expectation value for the electric field...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pablo L Saldanha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/16/1/013021