On canonical quantization of the electromagnetic tensor field

The program of canonical quantization of the electromagnetic field strength tensor B=(Bμν)=(E,H) is carried out. The simplest Lagrange function in terms of field strengths is found. It allows interpreting the electric field strength E as the field coordinate and the magnetic field strength H as the field momentum. The 000-component of the Lipkin zilch-tensor plays the role of the Hamiltonian density in this scheme. A correlation between canonical amplitudes of the scheme and operators of the creation and annihilation of real (transverse) photons is established. The commutation relations for the quantized field strength tensor B in this scheme are obtained in the explicit covariant form