Single-photon detector calibration by means of conditional polarization rotation

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 488-492

  Brida, Giorgio ^a   Genovese, Marco ^a   Gramegna, Marco ^a   Rastello, Maria Luisa ^a   Chekhova, Maria ^b   Krivitsky, Leonid ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ELETTROTECNICO NAZIONALE GALILEO FERRARIS   (Italy)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL ROTATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM THEORY;

BIPHOTON CALIBRATION; POLARIZATION ENTANGLED STATES; POLARIZATION ROTATION; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTOR;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 15344345871     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.000488     Document Type: Article

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