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Divide & Conquer: genuine characterization of light states by click detectors

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

Published Jan 1, 2017• 1 citation
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate an on-chip photon-counting device based on a divide-and-conquer technique exploiting linear optics and standard on-off detectors. Our scheme is based on click-counting statistics instead of photon-counting statistics.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2017.qt6a.6

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