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Opt Lett
; 28(23): 2387-9, 2003 Dec 01.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-14680191
RESUMEN
We report the development of a photon-number-resolving detector based on a fiber-optical setup and a pair of standard avalanche photodiodes. The detector is capable of resolving individual photon numbers and operates on the well-known principle by which a single-mode input state is split into a large number (eight) of output modes. We reconstruct the photon statistics of weak coherent input light from experimental data and show that there is a high probability of inferring the input photon number from a measurement of the number of detection events on a single run.