Measuring the absolute photodetection efficiency using photon number correlations

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 6059-6064

  Lindenthal, Michael ^a,b   Kofler, Johannes ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

DETECTOR TIME; PHOTODETECTION EFFICIENCY; PHOTON NUMBER CORRELATIONS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 33749835691     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006059     Document Type: Article

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