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Employing positive-definiteness arguments we analyse Boson field states, which combine classical and quantum mechanical features (signal and noise), in a constructive manner. Mathematically, they constitute Bauer simplexes within the convex, weak-*-compact state space of the C*-Weyl algebra, defined by a presymplectic test function space (smooth one-Boson wave functions) and are affinely homeomorphic to a state space of a classical field. The regular elements are expressed in terms of weak distributions (probability premeasures) on the dual test function space. The Bauer simplex arising from the bare vacuum is shown to generalize the quantum optical photon field states with positive P-functions.

Within the algebraic frame of smeared photon fields, the coherence properties of squeezed multi-photon states are elaborated. The squeezing Bogoliubov automorphisms are constructed by means of suitable one-mode symplectic transformations in the infinite-dimensional test-function space. Transposed into the state space, these transformations are shown to preserve first-order coherence when applied to coherent, classical, Fock-normal states in spite of rendering them nonclassical. The cases, where first-order coherence is destroyed, are also classified. Very special conditions on the initial state modes and on the operation parameters are worked out, under which even second-order coherence is still valid for the transformed classical coherent states, in spite of exhibiting squeezed fluctuations.