Title :
Direct measurement of the wigner function by photon-number-resolving detection
Author :
Sridhar, Niranjan ; Shahrokhshahi, Reihaneh ; Miller, Aaron ; Gerrits, Thomas ; Lita, Adriana ; Sae Woo Nam ; Pfister, Olivier
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Abstract :
We extended the seminal experiment of Banaszek et al. of quantum tomography by photon counting without Radon transform postprocessing to the more general case of photon fluxes with more than one photon per detection time.
Keywords :
photon counting; Wigner function; direct measurement; photon counting; photon flux; photon-number-resolving detection; quantum tomography; Detectors; Laser beams; Measurement by laser beam; Optical variables measurement; Phase measurement; Photonics; Tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
