In quantum optics and its applications, there is an urgent demand for photon-number resolving detectors. Recently, there appeared multi-pixel detectors (MPPC) that are able to distinguish between 1,2,..10 photons. At the same time, strong coupling between different pixels (cross-talk) hinders their photon-number resolution. In this work, we suggest a method for `filtering out' the cross-talk effect in the measurement of intensity correlation functions.
@article{arxiv.1012.2264,
title = {Accessing photon bunching with photon number resolving multi-pixel detector},
author = {Dmitry A. Kalashnikov and Si-Hui Tan and Maria V. Chekhova and Leonid A. Krivitsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.2264},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Reconsidered theoretical description, added recent experimental data, submitted for publication