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A rigorous analysis of four- and eight-port homodyne detection, employing asymptotic methods for su(2) Wigner functions, connects the operational formulation of photon counting with the usual quadrature and coherent state projection descriptions.
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Tyc, T., Sanders, B.C. (2003). Rigorous analysis of homodyne detection. In: Bigelow, N.P., Eberly, J.H., Stroud, C.R., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8907-9_115
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