Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution

被引：243

作者：

Achilles, D ^{[1
]}

Silberhorn, C ^{[1
]}

Sliwa, C ^{[1
]}

Banaszek, K ^{[1
]}

Walmsley, IA ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Oxford, Clarendon Lab, Oxford OX1 3PU, England

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 2003年 / 28卷 / 23期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.28.002387

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

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. (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.

引用

页码：2387 / 2389

页数：3

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