Achilles Daryl, Silberhorn Christine, Sliwa Cezary, Banaszek Konrad, Walmsley Ian A
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK.
Opt Lett. 2003 Dec 1;28(23):2387-9. doi: 10.1364/ol.28.002387.
We report the development of a photon-number-resolving detector based on a fiber-optical setup and a pair of standard avalanche photodiodes. The detector is capable of resolving individual photon numbers and operates on the well-known principle by which a single-mode input state is split into a large number (eight) of output modes. We reconstruct the photon statistics of weak coherent input light from experimental data and show that there is a high probability of inferring the input photon number from a measurement of the number of detection events on a single run.
