title: Redundancy of phase-space distribution functions in complex field recovery problems.
abstract: Shows that the amplitude and phase of an optical field can be recovered from only a section of phase-space distribution functions, the information contained in other sections being redundant. Experimental implications of this result are discussed, and a physical interpretation of it is offered. In particular the sampling problem in tomography is solved for any field distribution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, P.O. Box MG-11, 76900 Bucharest, Romania. danieladragoman@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dragoman