Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution.
We report the development of a photon-number-resolving detector based on a fiber-optical setup and a pair of standard avalanche photodiodes. The detector is capable of resolving individual photon numbers and operates on the well-known principle by which a single-mode input state is split into a larg...
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| author | Achilles, D Silberhorn, C Sliwa, C Banaszek, K Walmsley, I |
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| description | We report the development of a photon-number-resolving detector based on a fiber-optical setup and a pair of standard avalanche photodiodes. The detector is capable of resolving individual photon numbers and operates on the well-known principle by which a single-mode input state is split into a large number (eight) of output modes. We reconstruct the photon statistics of weak coherent input light from experimental data and show that there is a high probability of inferring the input photon number from a measurement of the number of detection events on a single run. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:d61248cb-b300-42a5-904d-152dd13981612022-03-27T08:30:34ZFiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:d61248cb-b300-42a5-904d-152dd1398161EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2003Achilles, DSilberhorn, CSliwa, CBanaszek, KWalmsley, IWe report the development of a photon-number-resolving detector based on a fiber-optical setup and a pair of standard avalanche photodiodes. The detector is capable of resolving individual photon numbers and operates on the well-known principle by which a single-mode input state is split into a large number (eight) of output modes. We reconstruct the photon statistics of weak coherent input light from experimental data and show that there is a high probability of inferring the input photon number from a measurement of the number of detection events on a single run. |
| spellingShingle | Achilles, D Silberhorn, C Sliwa, C Banaszek, K Walmsley, I Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution. |
| title | Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution. |
| title_full | Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution. |
| title_fullStr | Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution. |
| title_short | Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution. |
| title_sort | fiber assisted detection with photon number resolution |
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