Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Abstract

We study the properties of a photodetector that has a numberresolving capability. In the absence of dark counts, due to its finite quantum efficiency, photodetection with such a detector can only eliminate the possibility that the incident field corresponds to a number of photons less than the detected photon number. We show that such a non-photon number-discriminating detector, however, provides a useful tool in the reconstruction of the photon number distribution of the incident field even in the presence of dark counts. © 2004 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Journal of Modern Optics

First Page

1517

Last Page

1528

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