Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors
Humphreys, Peter C. · Metcalf, Benjamin J. · Gerrits, Thomas · Hiemstra, Thomas · Lita, Adriana E. · Nunn, Joshua · Nam, Sae Woo · Datta, Animesh · Kolthammer, W. Steven · Walmsley, Ian A.
Original · EN
We report a comprehensive approach to analysing continuous-output photon detectors. We employ principal component analysis to maximise the information extracted, followed by a novel noise-tolerant parameterised approach to the tomography of PNRDs. We further propose a measure for rigorously quantifying a detector's photon-number-resolving capability. Our approach applies to all detectors with continuous-output signals. We illustrate our methods by applying them to experimental data obtained from a transition-edge sensor (TES) detector.
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