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View SchemaFiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution
| Authors | Daryl Achilles, Christine Silberhorn, Cezary Sliwa, Konrad Banaszek, Ian A. Walmsley |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0305191 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0305191 |
| DOI | 10.1364/OL.28.002387 |
| Journal | Opt. Lett. 28, 2387 (2003) |
Abstract
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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