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View SchemaModeling photo-detectors in quantum optics
| Authors | Peter P. Rohde, Timothy C. Ralph |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0511099 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0511099 |
| DOI | 10.1080/09500340600578369 |
| Journal | J. Mod. Op. 53, 1589 (2006) |
Abstract
Photo-detection plays a fundamental role in experimental quantum optics and is of particular importance in the emerging field of linear optics quantum computing. Present theoretical treatment of photo-detectors is highly idealized and fails to consider many important physical effects. We present a physically motivated model for photo-detectors which accommodates for the effects of finite resolution, bandwidth and efficiency, as well as dark-counts and dead-time. We apply our model to two simple well known applications, which illustrates the significance of these characteristics.
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