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    • Full Statistical Mode Reconstruction of a light field

    Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

    The mode structure fully describes a light field and contains the information about the source of light without a direct access to the source. Here we offer the tool to extract this information from the measured photon number resolved (PNR) distribution. We present a software package aimed at simulating photon-number probability distributions of a range of naturally occurring classical and non-classical states of light. This software can generate arbitrary probability distributions based on the known mode structure of a light field. It also can solve the reverse problem, i.e. reconstructing the mode structure of a light field based on a given probability distribution.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.053806
    https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.053806
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05503

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Publisher National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Maintainer
    Identifier 505F5B02CE53D819E0531A570681F84B1840
    Language en
    Data Last Modified 2017-05-25 00:00:00
    Category Metrology:Optical, photometry, and laser metrology, Mathematics and Statistics:Statistical analysis, Physics:Optical physics, Physics:Quantum information science, Mathematics and Statistics:Numerical methods and software
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 006:55
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    Homepage URL https://github.com/usnistgov/FSMR
    License https://www.nist.gov/open/license
    Program Code 006:045
    Related Documents https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.053806, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.053806, https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05503
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