Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution

Daryl Achilles; Christine Silberhorn; Cezary Sliwa; Konrad Banaszek; Ian A. Walmsley

doi:10.1364/OL.28.002387

Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Authors: Daryl Achilles , Christine Silberhorn , Cezary Sliwa , Konrad Banaszek , Ian A. Walmsley

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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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single-photon avalanche diodes superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors quantum optics

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0305191,
  title  = {Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution},
  author = {Daryl Achilles and Christine Silberhorn and Cezary Sliwa and Konrad Banaszek and Ian A. Walmsley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0305191},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution

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