2015/02/26 by Peter C. Humphreys, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Thomas Gerrits +8 · 66 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies #Algorithm #Artificial intelligence #CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors #Calibration and Measurement Techniques #Computer science #Data mining #Detector #Image (mathematics) #Measure (data warehouse) #Noise (video) #Optics #Photon #Physics #Principal component analysis #Statistical physics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103044
published in New Journal of Physics 17(10), 103044 (IOP Publishing) · 5 pages, 3 figures, also includes supplementary information
arxiv created 2015/02/26 · openalex publication_date 2015/10/21 · arxiv updated 2015/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We report a comprehensive approach to analysing continuous-output photon detectors. We employ principal component analysis to maximize the information extracted from output signals, followed by a novel noise-tolerant parameterized approach to the tomography of photon-number resolving detectors. We further propose a measure for rigorously quantifying a detector's photon-number-resolving capability. Our approach applies to all detectors with continuous-output signals. We illustrate our methods by applying them to experimental data obtained from a transition-edge sensor detector.