Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements
Absolute Quantum Efficiency Measurements by Means of Conditioned Polarization Rotation
G. Brida, Maria V. Chekhova, Marco Genovese, Marco Gramegna, Leonid A. Krivitsky, S. P. Kulik, Maria Luisa Rastello
Abstract
The authors propose a new scheme for measuring the quantum efficiency of photon counting detectors by using correlated photons. The scheme consists in measuring the polarization state of one member of a correlated pair after a 90deg polarization rotation conditioned to the detection of the other correlated photon after polarization selection. The authors present experimental results obtained with this scheme compared with traditional correlated photon calibration