English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT

Released

Journal Article

Tomography by Noise

MPS-Authors
/persons/resource/persons201196

Silberhorn,  Ch
Silberhorn Research Group, Research Groups, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Max Planck Society;

External Resource
No external resources are shared
Fulltext (restricted access)
There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.
Fulltext (public)
There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe
Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Harder, G., Mogilevtsev, D., Korolkova, N., & Silberhorn, C. (2014). Tomography by Noise. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 113(7): 070403. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.070403.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002D-65C3-3
Abstract
We present an efficient and robust method for the reconstruction of photon number distributions by using solely thermal noise as a probe. The method uses a minimal number of precalibrated quantum devices; only one on-off single-photon detector is sufficient. The feasibility of the method is demonstrated by the experimental inference of single-photon, thermal. and two-photon states. The method is stable to experimental imperfections and provides a direct, user-friendly quantum diagnostics tool.