High accuracy verification of a correlated-photon-based method for determining photon-counting detection efficiency

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1390-1407

  Polyakov, Sergey V ^a   Migdall, Alan L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION DETECTORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CORRELATED-PHOTON METHOD; PHOTON-COUNTING DETECTORS; SUBSTITUTION METHOD;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33847240527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001390     Document Type: Article

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