Canonical-covariant Wigner function in polar form
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Date
2000Source Title
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
Print ISSN
0740-3232
Publisher
OSA - The Optical Society
Volume
17
Issue
12
Pages
2411 - 2421
Language
English
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Abstract
The two-dimensional Wigner function was investigated in polar canonical coordinates. The covariance properties under the action of affine canonical transformations were derived. The polar canonical phase-space representations were considered important for paraxial optical systems as well as other systems in which a rotational symmetry around a particular axis was present.
Keywords
Atomic physicsEigenvalues and eigenfunctions
Mathematical transformations
Optical systems
Phase space methods
Signal processing
Polar canonical coordinates
Quantum optics