Photon-number-resolving detection using time-multiplexing

Achilles, Daryl; Silberhorn, Christine; Śliwa, Cezary; Banaszek, Konrad; Walmsley, Ian A.; Fitch, Michael J.; Jacobs, B. C.; Pittman, T. B.; Franson, J. D.

doi:10.1080/09500340408235288

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“…This operation is followed by interference on the variable beam splitter constituted by HWP3 and PBS4. The two polarization modes are then filtered by 3-nm interference filters (IF), coupled to single-mode fibers and sent to photon-number-resolving time-multiplexed detectors (TMDs) for photon counting [36]. up to eight photons plus vacuum [36].…”

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Multiphoton state engineering by heralded interference between single photons and coherent states

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We develop a technique for generating multiphoton nonclassical states via interference between coherent and Fock states using quantum catalysis. By modulating the coherent field strength, the number of catalyst photons, and the ratio of the beam splitter upon which they interfere, a wide range of nonclassical phenomena can be created, including squeezing of up to 1.25 dB, antibunched and superbunched photon statistics, and states exhibiting over 90% fidelity to displaced coherent superposition states. We perform quantum catalysis experimentally, showing tunability into the nonclassical regime. Our protocol is not limited by weak nonlinearities that underlie most known strategies of preparing multiphoton nonclassical states. Successive iterations of this protocol can lead to direct control over the weights of higher-order terms in the Fock basis, paving the way towards conditional preparation of "designer" multiphoton states for applications in quantum computation, communication, and metrology.

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“…[254][255][256] In Sec. III C we consider photon-number resolving detectors such as the transition-edge sensor (TES), 257 superconducting-tunnel-junction (STJ) detector, [258][259][260][261] parallel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (P-SNSPD), 262 charge-integration photon detector (CIPD), 263 visible-light photon counter (VLPC), 113,264 quantum-dot optically gated field-effect transistor (QDOGFET), 265 timemultiplexed SPAD, 266 SPAD array, and the recently reported number-resolving capability of a detector based on a single SPAD. 267 The characteristics of examples of many of these detectors are compiled in Table II for ease of comparison.…”

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Invited Review Article: Single-photon sources and detectors

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“…Conventional N 00 N states are difficult to produce, and photon-number-resolving detectors333435 are required to extract a metrological signal36. While multiplexed on-off detectors can be realized easily, they only count photon number approximately, and are therefore not suitable for metrological applications.…”

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Sequential Path Entanglement for Quantum Metrology

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Peng

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Path entanglement is a key resource for quantum metrology. Using path-entangled states, the standard quantum limit can be beaten, and the Heisenberg limit can be achieved. However, the preparation and detection of such states scales unfavourably with the number of photons. Here we introduce sequential path entanglement, in which photons are distributed across distinct time bins with arbitrary separation, as a resource for quantum metrology. We demonstrate a scheme for converting polarization Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement into sequential path entanglement. We observe the same enhanced phase resolution expected for conventional path entanglement, independent of the delay between consecutive photons. Sequential path entanglement can be prepared comparably easily from polarization entanglement, can be detected without using photon-number-resolving detectors, and enables novel applications.

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Photon-number-resolving detection using time-multiplexing

Cited by 158 publications

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Multiphoton state engineering by heralded interference between single photons and coherent states

Multiphoton state engineering by heralded interference between single photons and coherent states

Invited Review Article: Single-photon sources and detectors

Sequential Path Entanglement for Quantum Metrology

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