Photon statistics without counting photons
arXiv:quant-ph/0405139 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.70.055801
Abstract
We show how to obtain the photon distribution of a single-mode field using only avalanche photodetectors. The method is based on measuring the field at different quantum efficiencies and then inferring the photon distribution by maximum-likelihood estimation. The convergence of the method and its robustness against fluctuations are illustrated by means of numerically simulated experiments.
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