%0 Journal Article %T Homodyne characterization of active optical media %A G. M. D'Ariano %A M. G. A. Paris %A M. F. Sacchi %J Physics %D 2000 %I arXiv %X An effective maximum likelihood method is suggested to characterize the absorption/amplification properties of active optical media through homodyne detection. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0009081v1