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View SchemaPhoton statistics without counting photons
| Authors | Andrea R. Rossi, Stefano Olivares, Matteo G. A. Paris |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0405139 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0405139 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.055801 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A vol 70, 055801 (2004) |
Abstract
We show how to obtain the photon distribution of a single-mode field using only avalanche photodetectors. The method is based on measuring the field at different quantum efficiencies and then inferring the photon distribution by maximum-likelihood estimation. The convergence of the method and its robustness against fluctuations are illustrated by means of numerically simulated experiments.
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