We build an operational scheme for the quantum state reconstruction based on the fitting of data patterns. Each data pattern corresponds to the response of the measurement setup to a predefined reference state. The set of data patterns can be measured experimentally in the calibration stage preceding to the reconstruction. The quorum of reference states plays the role of a positive operator valued measure in terms of which the reconstruction is done. As the main advantage, the procedure is free of notorious problems with projections into non-normalizable quadrature eigenstates, infinite dimensionality, ill-posed inversion, or imperfect detection.

Department of Optics Palacky University 17 listopadu 12 771 46 Olomouc Czech Republic

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