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- - Photon number resolving detectors are highly regarded in quantum optics, leading to increased focus on their technological development in recent years.
- - To assess the performance of these detectors, comparing them to a system of multiple on-off detectors used in preparing photon number states is suggested.
- - This comparison highlights how the quality and success rate of prepared states can be influenced by the number of on-off detectors, setting benchmarks for photon number resolving detectors to meet or exceed.
Article Abstract
Photon number resolving detectors are the ultimate measurement of quantum optics, which is the reason why developing the technology is getting significant attention in recent years. With this arises the question of how to evaluate the performance of the detectors. We suggest that performance of a photon number detector can be evaluated by comparing it to a multiplex of on-off detectors in a practical scenario: conditional preparation of a photon number state. Here, both the quality of the prepared state and the probability of the preparation are limited by the number of on-off detectors in the multiplex, which allows us to set benchmarks that can be achieved or surpassed by the photon number resolving detectors.
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