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Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors

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

Abstract

We develop a comprehensive approach to analyzing the continuous output of photon detectors. It uses principle component analysis to extract information available from such detectors, followed by a novel parameterized photon-number resolving detector tomography approach that is robust to noise. We further study the role of prior photon number distributions and propose a measure of quantifying the confidence of a detector's photon-number-resolving capability. We use our measure to compare different detectors in use.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
17
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103044

Keywords

transition edge sensor, detector tomography, principle component analysis
Quantum information science

Citation

Gerrits, T. , Humphreys, P. , Metcalf, B. , Hiemstra, T. , Lita, A. , Nam, S. , Datta, A. , Kolthammer, S. , Walmsley, I. and Nunn, J. (2015), Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103044 (Accessed October 16, 2025)

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Created October 21, 2015, Updated November 10, 2018
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