A proposed testbed for detector tomography

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 56, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 432-441

  Coldenstrodt Ronge, Hendrik B ^a   Lundeen, Jeff S ^a   Pregnell, Kenny L ^b   Feito, Alvaro ^b   Smith, Brian J ^a   Mauerer, Wolfgang ^c   Silberhorn, Christine ^c   Eisert, Jens ^b   Plenio, Martin B ^b   Walmsley, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Measurement; Photon counting; POVM; Quantum; Tomography; Wigner function

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; MEASUREMENT DEVICES; PHOTON COUNTING; POVM; QUANTUM; QUANTUM SYSTEMS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; WIGNER-FUNCTION;

DETECTORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 65349145757     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: 13623044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340802304929     Document Type: Article

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