Speaker
Mr.
Álvaro Navarrete Rodríguez
(Universidad de Vigo)
Description
Correct characterization of general linear optical networks is becoming a promising task due to the continuous development in some fields as quantum computation and quantum communications, in which quantum optics is typically involved. Specifically, it is of great importance in several applications to know the photon number statistics at the outputs of the linear network as a function of the input photon number to check its quality. Although in recent years there have been some advances in multi-photon sources and photon number resolution a simple plug-and-play method for characterising general linear optics networks with enough accuracy is still missing. We propose a simple and practical method to estimate these photon number statistics that can be implemented with laser sources that generate quantum signals which are diagonal in the Fock basis in combination with threshold single-photon detectors.
Primary author
Mr.
Álvaro Navarrete Rodríguez
(Universidad de Vigo)
Co-authors
Dr.
Feihu Xu
(University of Toronto)
Dr.
Marcos Curty
(Universidad de Vigo)
Mr.
Wenyuang Wang
(University of Toronto)
