Lee, Hwang; Yurtsever, Ulvi; Kok, Pieter; Hockney, George M.; Adami, Christoph; Braunstein, Samuel L.; Dowling, Jonathan P. Towards photostatistics from photon-number discriminating detectors. (English) Zbl 1069.81009 J. Mod. Opt. 51, No. 9-10, 1517-1528 (2004). Summary: We study the properties of a photodetector that has a number-resolving 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. Cited in 1 Document MSC: 81P68 Quantum computation 81V80 Quantum optics 81P15 Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{H. Lee} et al., J. Mod. Opt. 51, No. 9--10, 1517--1528 (2004; Zbl 1069.81009) Full Text: DOI arXiv