Single photon-added coherent states: estimation of parameters and fidelity of the optical homodyne detection

Travelling modes of single-photon-added coherent states (SPACS) are characterized via optical homodyne tomography. Given a set of experimentally measured quadrature distributions, we estimate parameters of the state and also extract information about the detector efficiency. The method used is a minimal distance estimation between theoretical and experimental quantities, which additionally allows to evaluate the precision of estimated parameters. Given experimental data, we also estimate the lower and upper bounds on fidelity. The results are believed to encourage preciser engineering and detection of SPACS.
Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, based on the contribution to the 19th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics (2-6 July 2012, Sinaia, Romania)