Quantum optics in the photon number basis / vorgelegt von Johannes Tiedau. Paderborn, 2020
Inhalt
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Quantum state generation
- Background
- PDC for generating single-photon states
- PDC for generating higher-order Fock state
- PDC in the continuous variable picture
- Conclusion
- 3 Photon-number detection
- Background
- Time-multiplexed detection for large input states
- Evaluating time-multiplexed detection data
- Quantum correlations in high-dimensional systems
- High dynamic range detection
- Multi-element SNSPDs
- Conclusion
- 4 Quantum state tomography
- Background
- Tomography by the overlap
- Incomplete detection of generalized phase-space functions
- Generating a `truly local' local oscillator
- Two-laser tomography
- 5 Conclusion and Outlook
- References
- Acknowledgements
- A List of scientific contributions
- B High-gain measurements
- C Example code
- D Local Oscillator
- E Timing jitter from RF source
- F 128-bin detector
