Direct, Loss-Tolerant Characterization of Nonclassical Photon Statistics
arXiv:quant-ph/0606170 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.043602
Abstract
We experimentally investigate a method of directly characterizing the photon number distribution of nonclassical light beams that is tolerant to losses and makes use only of standard binary detectors. This is achieved in a single measurement by calibrating the detector using some small amount of prior information about the source. We demonstrate the technique on a freely propagating heralded two-photon number state created by conditional detection of a two-mode squeezed state generated by a parametric downconverter.
5 pages, 2 figures
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