Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 063602 (2005) [4 pages]

Experimental Reconstruction of Photon Statistics without Photon Counting

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Guido Zambra¹, Alessandra Andreoni¹, Maria Bondani^1,*, Marco Gramegna², Marco Genovese^2,†, Giorgio Brida², Andrea Rossi³, and Matteo G. A. Paris^3,‡
¹Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, INFM and Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italia
²Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale, IEN, Galileo Ferraris, Torino, Italia
³Dipartimento di Fisica dell’ Università di Milano, Italia

Received 10 February 2005; published 5 August 2005

Experimental reconstructions of photon number distributions of both continuous-wave and pulsed light beams are reported. Our scheme is based on on/off avalanche photodetection assisted by maximum-likelihood estimation and does not involve photon counting. Reconstructions of the distribution for both semiclassical and quantum states of light are reported for single-mode as well as for multimode beams.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.063602

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.063602

PACS:

42.50.Ar, 03.65.Wj, 42.50.Dv

^*Electronic address: maria.bondani@uninsubria.it

^†Electronic address: genovese@ien.it

^‡Electronic address: matteo.paris@fisica.unimi.it

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 063602 (2005) [4 pages]

Experimental Reconstruction of Photon Statistics without Photon Counting