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Positive Operator-Valued Measure reconstruction of a beam-splitter tree based photon-number- resolving detector

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Sergey V. Polyakov, Fabrizio Piacentini, Filippo Levi, A Avella, M Lopez, Stefan Kuck, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Giorgio Brida, Marco Genovese

Abstract

Here we present a reconstruction of the Positive Operator-Value Measurement of a photon-number-resolving detector comprised of three 50:50 beamsplitters in a tree configuration, terminated with four single-photon avalanche detectors.
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Optics Letters
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Keywords

single photon detectors, photon number statistics, quantum tomography
Quantum information science

Citation

Polyakov, S. , Piacentini, F. , Levi, F. , Avella, A. , Lopez, M. , Kuck, S. , Degiovanni, I. , Brida, G. and Genovese, M. (2015), Positive Operator-Valued Measure reconstruction of a beam-splitter tree based photon-number- resolving detector, Optics Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.001548 (Accessed April 25, 2024)

Created March 30, 2015, Updated November 10, 2018