Light statistics by non-calibrated linear photodetectors

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dc.creatorBondani, Maria
dc.creatorAllevi, Alessia
dc.creatorAndreoni, Alessandra
dc.date2008-10-22
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:12:26Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:12:26Z
dc.descriptionWe theoretically demonstrate that detectors endowed with internal gain and operated in regimes in which they do not necessarily behave as photon-counters, but still ensure linear input/output responses, can allow a self-consistent characterization of the statistics of the number of detected photons without need of knowing their gain. We present experiments performed with a photo-emissive hybrid detector on a number of classical fields endowed with non-trivial statistics and show that the method works for both microscopic and mesoscopic photon numbers. The obtained detected-photon probability distributions agree with those expected for the photon numbers, which are also reconstructed by an independent method.
dc.descriptionsubmitted to the special issue "Tests of foundations of Quantum Mechanics" of "Advanced Science Letters"
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4026
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4026
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/172182
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleLight statistics by non-calibrated linear photodetectors
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