Photon Counting

Crispin W. Gardiner, P. Zoller

Каримуллин Камиль Равкатович

The method of registration of weak light pulses in a mode of the photon counting is discussed. The principle of photon counting, its key points and operating circuit configuration, as well as characteristics of photomultiplier tubes and basic characteristics of the photon counting is explained. The appendix of techniques of the photon counting for experiments in the field of a photon echo is considered.

Neil J. Savage

Jorge C. S. Castro, H. M. Salgado

A statistical model linking the probability of detecting photons in a photon counting experiment to the average number of input photons is used to analytically derive an error distribution of the estimates of the average number of photons in coherent input pulses. The estimates distribution determines the required number of experimental count runs required for an acceptable measurement error, for any value of the average number of input photons. An expression for the minimum detectable power by photon counting is obtained, fully capturing the effect of the photon counting statistics thereby completing an earlier analysis.

Hong‐Chun Yuan, Hong-Yi Fan, Liyun Hu

By virtue of the density operator's P -representation in the coherent state representation, we derive a new quantum mechanical photon counting distribution formula. As its application, we calculate photon counting distributions for some given light fields. It is found that the pure squeezed state's photon counting distribution is related to the Legendre function, which is a new result.

F. A. Johnson, Thomas McLean, Edward R. Pike