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Physical Review Letters

Comment on “Thresholded Quantum LIDAR: Exploiting Photon-Number-Resolving Detection”

Éric Lantz

Published May 13, 2020• 4 citations
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Abstract

The ratio of the SNR with thresholding and with proportional detection for one photon of mean background noise, for a threshold value N from 1 to 4.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.124.199302

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