• DocumentCode
    1769758
  • Title

    An improved method for photon-number discrimination for transition-edge sensors

  • Author

    Glebov, Boris L. ; Jingyun Fan ; Migdall, Alan L. ; Lita, A.E. ; Sae Woo Nam ; Gerrits, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Proposed discrimination of photon numbers is based on sum-squared error between an individual detector response curve and a calibration suite of response templates corresponding to a range of photon numbers. Templates for low numbers are obtained directly from data. Templates for higher photon numbers are extrapolated from fits describing incremental differences between successive low-number response templates.
  • Keywords
    calibration; extrapolation; optical sensors; quantum optics; calibration; extrapolation; individual detector response curve; photon-number discrimination; response templates; sum-squared error; transition-edge sensors; Calibration; Detectors; Energy resolution; Noise; Photonics; Statistical distributions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988527