Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors

Peter C. Humphreys; Benjamin J. Metcalf; Thomas Gerrits; Thomas Hiemstra; Adriana E. Lita; Joshua Nunn; Sae Woo Nam; Animesh Datta; W. Steven Kolthammer; Ian A. Walmsley

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103044

Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors

Quantum Physics 2015-11-30 v1

Authors: Peter C. Humphreys , Benjamin J. Metcalf , Thomas Gerrits , Thomas Hiemstra , Adriana E. Lita , Joshua Nunn , Sae Woo Nam , Animesh Datta , W. Steven Kolthammer , Ian A. Walmsley

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Abstract

We report a comprehensive approach to analysing continuous-output photon detectors. We employ principal component analysis to maximise the information extracted, followed by a novel noise-tolerant parameterised approach to the tomography of PNRDs. We further propose a measure for rigorously quantifying a detector's photon-number-resolving capability. Our approach applies to all detectors with continuous-output signals. We illustrate our methods by applying them to experimental data obtained from a transition-edge sensor (TES) detector.

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superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors optical microscopy and spectroscopy particle detector

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@article{arxiv.1502.07649,
  title  = {Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors},
  author = {Peter C. Humphreys and Benjamin J. Metcalf and Thomas Gerrits and Thomas Hiemstra and Adriana E. Lita and Joshua Nunn and Sae Woo Nam and Animesh Datta and W. Steven Kolthammer and Ian A. Walmsley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.07649},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors

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