Tomography by noise

G. Harder; D. Mogilevtsev; N. Korolkova; Ch Silberhorn

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.070403

Tomography by noise

G. Harder^*, D. Mogilevtsev, N. Korolkova, Ch Silberhorn

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School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

We present an efficient and robust method for the reconstruction of photon number distributions by using solely thermal noise as a probe. The method uses a minimal number of precalibrated quantum devices; only one on-off single-photon detector is sufficient. The feasibility of the method is demonstrated by the experimental inference of single-photon, thermal. and two-photon states. The method is stable to experimental imperfections and provides a direct, user-friendly quantum diagnostics tool.

Original language	English
Article number	070403
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	113
Issue number	7
Early online date	13 Aug 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.070403
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2014

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