Measurement of photon correlations with multipixel photon counters
arXiv:1408.0059 · doi:10.1364/JOSAB.31.000B25
Abstract
Development of reliable photon number resolving detectors (PNRD), devices which are capable to distinguish 1,2,3.. photons, is of a great importance for quantum optics and its applications. A new class of affordable PNRD is based on multipixel photon counters (MPPC). Here we review results of experiments on using MPPCs for direct characterization of squeezed vacuum (SV) states, generated via parametric downconversion (PDC). We use MPPCs to measure the second order normalized intensity correlation function (g^(2)) and directly detect the two-mode squeezing of SV states. We also present a method of calibration of crosstalk probability in MPPCs based on g^(2) measurements of coherent states.
arXiv commentReview of our recent experimental results on using multipixel photon counters (MPPC) for characterization of various quantum states of light
References in corpus (29)
- Experimental quantum teleportation
- Review article: Linear optical quantum computing
- Multi-photon entanglement and interferometry
- Security Aspects of Practical Quantum Cryptography
- Optical Quantum Computing
- Super-resolving phase measurements with a multi-photon entangled state
- De Broglie Wavelength of a Nonlocal Four-Photon
- Mach-Zehnder Interferometry at the Heisenberg Limit with coherent and squeezed-vacuum light
- Photon number resolution using a time-multiplexed single-photon detector
- Multiphoton Quantum Optics and Quantum State Engineering
- Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution
- An avalanche-photodiode-based photon-number-resolving detector
- Noise-free high-efficiency photon-number-resolving detectors
- Accessing higher order correlations by time-multiplexing
- Two-Color Bright Squeezed Vacuum
- SiPM used as fast Photon-Counting Module and for Multiphoton Detection
- Characterization and Simulation of the Response of Multi Pixel Photon Counters to Low Light Levels
- Direct measurement and reconstruction of nonclassical features of twin beams generated in spontaneous parametric down-conversion
- Quantum state measurements using multi-pixel photon detectors
- Waveguide photon-number-resolving detectors for quantum photonic integrated circuits
- Photon-number statistics with Silicon photomultipliers
- Self-consistent characterization of light statistics
- Accessing photon bunching with photon number resolving multi-pixel detector
- Performance of Multi-Pixel Photon Counters for the T2K near detectors
- Measurements of the dependence of the photon-number distribution on the number of modes in parametric down-conversion
- Measurement of two-mode squeezing with photon number resolving multi-pixel detectors
- Crosstalk calibration of multi-pixel photon counters using coherent states
- Absolute calibration of photodetectors: photocurrent multiplication versus photocurrent subtraction
- Imaging of Spatial Correlations of Two-Photon States