Photon-number statistics measured with a noncounting PMT

Andreoni, Alessandra; Allevi, Alessia; Bondani, Maria

doi:10.1007/s10946-009-9107-9

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“…In our previous works we applied the procedure outlined in the previous Section to a number of di®erent photo-detectors endowed with very di®erent characteristics and outputs: photomultiplier tube model 8850 (Burle), 11 hybrid photo-detectors model H8236-40 (Hamamatsu) 11,12 and model RU10467U-40 (Hamamatsu), 17 photomultiplier tube model H7583-04 (Hamamatsu) 13 and multi-pixel photo-detectors MPPC S10362-11-100C (Hamamatsu). 14,17 In spite of their di®erences, all of these detectors satisfy the conditions 2 = 2 ( 1 and hence the procedure has been successfully applied to reconstruct the statistics of several classical light¯elds and evaluate the shot-by-shot correlations between the components of bipartite classical¯elds.…”

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Choosing a Photoemissive Detector Suitable for Photon-Number Statistics of Pulsed Fields

Bondani

Allevi

Andreoni

2011

Int. J. Quantum Inform.

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We investigate the possibility of using linear detectors that exhibit a response to dark just resolved from that corresponding to a single detected photon to reconstruct the photon-number statistics of pulsed¯elds containing sizeable numbers of photons per pulse. We demonstrate that by applying a self-consistent procedure to analyze the output pulses of such detectors, we can properly measure statistical distributions of the number of detected photons and photon number correlations. The lack of ful¯llment of such minimal requirements impairs the possibility of reliable shot-by-shot determinations of photon numbers.

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Choosing a Photoemissive Detector Suitable for Photon-Number Statistics of Pulsed Fields

Bondani

Allevi

Andreoni

2011

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Photon-Number Correlation of a Classical Exotic State in the Mesoscopic Regime

Allevi

Beduini

Bondani

et al. 2011

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We demonstrate that by using a pair of hybrid photodetectors, it is possible to quantify the photon-number correlation coefficient between the components of a classical state described by non-trivial statistics and by a non-Gaussian Wigner function. The measurements, performed in the quite unexplored mesoscopic domain (up to 100 photons incident onto the detector), are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions, and thus open the possibility of performing further tests on this exotic state for its application in the field of quantum information.

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