Rigorous Characterization of Single-Photon Detectors using Generalized Decoy-State Scheme
Gong Zhang, Haibo Wang, Jishen Zhang, Chao Wang, Haiwen Xu, Yan Liang, Charles Ci Wen Lim, Xiao Gong · Quantum Information and Measurement VI 2021 · 2021
We experimentally demonstrate a generalized decoy-state scheme to rigorously characterize the efficiency and noise of single-photon detectors with relaxed requirement on the detector's physical model, which could open new possibilities in device calibration standards.