Title :
Entanglement-assisted calibration of a photon-number-resolving detector
Author :
Brida, G. ; Ciavarella, L. ; Dagrada, M. ; Degiovanni, I.P. ; Genovese, M. ; Migdall, A. ; Mingolla, M.G. ; Paris, M.G.A. ; Piacentini, F. ; Polyakov, S.V.
Author_Institution :
INRIM, Torino, Italy
Abstract :
Here we present the first experimental entanglement-assisted quantum characterization of an unknown photon-number-resolving detector, i.e. the reconstruction of its positive operator-valued measure (POVM), obtained by exploiting the quantum correlations of a twin-beam generated by parametric down conversion (PDC).
Keywords :
optical correlation; quantum entanglement; entanglement-assisted calibration; entanglement-assisted quantum characterization; parametric down conversion; photon-number-resolving detector; positive operator-valued measure reconstruction; quantum correlations; Calibration; Correlation; Detectors; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Photonics; Quantum entanglement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6