Towards photostatistics from photon-number discriminating detectors

Details Towards photostatistics from photon-number discriminating detectors Towards photostatistics from photon-number discriminating detectors

2003-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310161v1

J. Mod. Opt. 51, 1517 (2004)

Physics

Quantum Physics

7 pages, 4 figures

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We study the properties of a photodetector that has a number-resolving capability. In the absence of dark counts, due to its finite quantum efficiency, photodetection with such a detector can only eliminate the possibility that the incident field corresponds to a number of photons less than the detected photon number. We show that such a {\em non-photon} number-discriminating detector, however, provides a useful tool in the reconstruction of the photon number distribution of the incident field even in the presence of dark counts.

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