High-Efficiency Photon-Number Detection for Quantum Information Processing

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1502-1511

  Waks, Edo ^a   Inoue, Kyo ^a,b   Oliver, William D ^a   Diamanti, Eleni ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Photon counting; Quantum information; Quantum optics

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; CRYOGENICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INFORMATION THEORY; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM THEORY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

PHOTON COUNTING; QUANTUM INFORMATION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 1342265626     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.820917     Document Type: Article

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