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    "abstract": "We show that the eight-port interferometer used by Noh, Foug\\`{e}res, and\nMandel [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\\bf 71}, 2579 (1993)] to measure their operational\nphase distribution of light can also be used to measure the canonical phase\ndistribution of weak optical fields, where canonical phase is defined as the\ncomplement of photon number. A binomial reference state is required for this\npurpose, which we show can be obtained to an excellent degree of approximation\nfrom a suitably squeezed state. The proposed method requires only\nphotodetectors that can distinguish among zero, one and more than one photons\nand is not particularly sensitive to photodetector imperfections.",
    "arxiv_id": "quant-ph/0508166",
    "authors": [
      "K. L. Pregnell",
      "D. T. Pegg"
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    "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.67.063814",
    "journal_ref": "Phys. Rev. A, 67, 063814 (2003)",
    "title": "Binomial states and the phase distribution measurement of weak optical   fields",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508166"
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