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Optimizing Silicon photomultipliers for Quantum Optics

Quantum Physics 2018-12-07 v1

Abstract

Silicon Photomultipliers are potentially ideal detectors for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information studies based on mesoscopic states of light. However, their non-idealities hampered their use so far. An optimal mode of operation has been developed and it is presented here, proving that this class of sensors can actually be exploited for the characterization of both classical and quantum properties of light.

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@article{arxiv.1812.02555,
  title  = {Optimizing Silicon photomultipliers for Quantum Optics},
  author = {Giovanni Chesi and Luca Malinverno and Alessia Allevi and Romualdo Santoro and Massimo Caccia and Alexander Martemiyanov and Maria Bondani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.02555},
  year   = {2018}
}

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15 pages, 14 figures

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