https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023000002
Exploiting Silicon photomultipliers for measuring nonclassical optical states
1 Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como (Italy)
2 Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, IFN-CNR, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como (Italy)
∗ Corresponding author: gchesi@uninsubria.it
∗∗ Corresponding author: alessia.allevi@uninsubria.it
∗∗∗ Corresponding author: maria.bondani@uninsubria.it
Published online: 11 March 2020
The search for optimal receivers endowed with photon-number-resolving capability has led us to consider Silicon photomultipliers for Quantum Optics experiments. By adopting an optimization procedure in order to reduce the spurious effects characterizing these detectors, we succeeded in detecting nonclassical correlations between the two parties of mesoscopic twin-beam states and in obtaining subPoissonian conditional states. These results put SiPMs forward for the implementation of Quantum Information and Communication protocols.
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