Title :
Technique for photon statistics reconstruction by using on/off detectors.
Author :
Gramegna, Marco ; Genovese, Marco ; Brida, Giorgio ; Rossi, Andrea ; Paris, Matteo G.A.
Author_Institution :
I.N.Ri.M. - Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135 -Torino, Italy
Abstract :
Report on first experimental applications of a measurement scheme with variable quantum efficiency single-photon ON/OFF detectors for evaluating the diagonal elements of the density matrix for various quantum optical states, without involving photon counting.
Keywords :
Density measurement; Detectors; Event detection; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optical filters; Photonic crystals; Photonics Society; Pulse measurements; Statistical distributions; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2007.4431762
