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 April 25, 2024)
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Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors
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, Peter C. Humphreys, Benjamin Metcalf, Thomas Hiemstra, , , 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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Keywords
transition edge sensor, detector tomography, principle component analysis
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Created October 21, 2015, Updated November 10, 2018