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Frontiers in Optics

Divide & Conquer: Counting photons on an integrated platform

Armando Pérez-Leija, René Heilmann, Jan Sperling, Markus Gräfe, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, W. Vogel, Alexander Szameit

Published Jan 1, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a fully integrated photon-counting device based on a divide-and-conquer technique using linear optics in combination with standard on-off detectors. Our scheme is based on click-counting statistics instead of photon-counting statistics.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2015.ftu3a.4

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