Levine, Z.
, Bienfang, J.
, Migdall, A.
and Zimmerman, N.
(2025),
Metrological Near-Room-Temperature Photon-Number-Resolving Detector: a Design Study, Sensors, [online], https://doi.org/10.3390/s25175470, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=960308
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Metrological Near-Room-Temperature Photon-Number-Resolving Detector: a Design Study
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We describe and model a non-cryogenic optical detector designed to count incident photons with metrological accuracy. Our design consists of a semiconductor device operating at −10 °C and is predicted to resolve pulses of up to 10 photons with an error rate of 2% in the input number of photons. We present an estimate of the overall device performance using a combination of estimates and simulations of optical loss, discrete electron loss and noise, and electronic noise.Citation
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