@inproceedings{4e39dd6f5e4f4c298092740013bd307d,
title = "Measuring Wigner functions of quantum states of light in the undergraduate lab",
abstract = "We present an educational activity for measuring Wigner distribution functions of quantum states of light in the undergraduate laboratory. The activity was implemented by undergraduate students in different courses of the undergraduate curriculum, and the resulting activity was tested by different students of an introductory Quantum Optics course at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogot{\'a}, Colombia. The activity consists of a two-hour laboratory practice where students work in a pre-aligned experimental setup and then use an open-access, custom made computational graphical user interface that enables the reconstruction of the Wigner distribution function. Since the testing of the activity coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, the possibility of analyzing simulated data was included in the computational user interface. The activity is now running for in-person classes and its virtual feature is now valuable for the implementation of distance learning of Quantum Optics.",
keywords = "Experimental methods, Homodyne detection, Quantum optics, Radon transform, Wigner distribution function",
author = "{\'A}lvarez, \{Juan R.\} and Silva, \{Andr{\'e}s Mart{\'i}nez\} and Alejandra Valencia",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 SPIE.; 17th Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, ETOP 2023 ; Conference date: 15-05-2023 Through 18-05-2023",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1117/12.2666765",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Hagan, \{David J.\} and Mike McKee",
booktitle = "Seventeenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, ETOP 2023",
}