Divide & Conquer: Counting photons on an integrated platform
Armando Pérez-Leija, René Heilmann, Jan Sperling, Markus Gräfe, Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, W. Vogel, Alexander Szameit · 2015
We experimentally demonstrate a fully integrated photon-counting device based on a divide-and-conquer technique using linear optics in combination with standard on-off detectors. Our scheme is based on click-counting statistics instead of photon-counting statistics.