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arXiv:1811.05895 · Optics Letters

Measuring nonclassicality with silicon photomultipliers

Giovanni Chesi, Luca Malinverno, Alessia Allevi, Romualdo Santoro, M. Caccia, Maria Bondani

Published Mar 6, 2019• 32 citations
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Abstract

Detector stochastic deviations from an ideal response can hamper the measurement of quantum properties of light, especially in the mesoscopic regime where photon-number resolution is required. We demonstrate that, by proper analysis of the output signal, nonclassicality of twin-beam states can be detected and exploited with commercial and cost-effective silicon-based photon-number-resolving detectors.

DOI
10.1364/ol.44.001371

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