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Accessing Photon Bunching with Photon Number Resolving Multi-Pixel Detector

Leonid A. Krivitsky, Dmitry A. Kalashnikov, Maria V. Chekhova

Published Jan 1, 2011• 1 citation
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Abstract

The intensity correlation function of squeezed vacuum, produced in an OPA, was measured with a photon-number resolving multi-pixel detector (MPPC). Based on realistic MPPC model, strong photon bunching was revealed for low-gain OPA radiation.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2011.qthe5

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