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Frontiers in Optics

Two-Photon Read-Out of a Quantum Optics Chip with a Single Pixel Camera

Kian Fong Ng, Paul C. V. Thrane, Adithyan Radhakrishnan, Alexander Ling, James A. Grieve

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate the use of computational imaging techniques and a single-pixel camera based on a pair of avalanche photodiodes to reconstruct two-photon probability distributions at the output of a polymer waveguide device.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2019.ftu6a.5

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