Noise-free high-efficiency photon-number-resolving detectors Export

@article{Rosenberg05, abstract = {High-efficiency optical detectors that can determine the number of photons in a pulse of monochromatic light have applications in a variety of physics studies; including post-selection-based entanglement protocols for linear optics quantum computing and experiments that simultaneously close the detection and communication loopholes of Bell's inequalities. Here we report on our demonstration of fiber-coupled; noise-free; photon-number-resolving transition-edge sensors with 88\% efficiency at 1550 nm. The efficiency of these sensors could be made even higher at any wavelength in the visible and near-infrared spectrum without resulting in a higher dark-count rate or degraded photon-number resolution.}, author = {Rosenberg, Danna and Lita, Adriana E. and Miller, Aaron J. and Nam, Sae W.}, citeulike-article-id = {2630198}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PLRAAN000071000006061803000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v71/e061803}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.061803}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v71/i6/e061803}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://link.aps.org/pdf/PRA/v71/i6/e061803}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.71.061803}, journal = {Physical Review A}, keywords = {detector}, month = {Jun}, number = {6}, pages = {061803+}, posted-at = {2009-10-15 09:25:40}, priority = {2}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, title = {Noise-free high-efficiency photon-number-resolving detectors}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.061803}, volume = {71}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - Rosenberg05 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2630198 N2 - High-efficiency optical detectors that can determine the number of photons in a pulse of monochromatic light have applications in a variety of physics studies; including post-selection-based entanglement protocols for linear optics quantum computing and experiments that simultaneously close the detection and communication loopholes of Bell’s inequalities. Here we report on our demonstration of fiber-coupled; noise-free; photon-number-resolving transition-edge sensors with 88% efficiency at 1550 nm. The efficiency of these sensors could be made even higher at any wavelength in the visible and near-infrared spectrum without resulting in a higher dark-count rate or degraded photon-number resolution. IS - 6 JF - Physical Review A TI - Noise-free high-efficiency photon-number-resolving detectors PB - American Physical Society VL - 71 SP - 061803 KW - detector AU - Rosenberg, Danna AU - Lita, Adriana AU - Miller, Aaron AU - Nam, Sae PY - 2005/Jun// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.061803 ER -