Thesis
Preparing and characterizing quantum states of light using photon-number-resolving detectors
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A longstanding goal in quantum optics has been to realize a photon-number-resolving detector that efficiently counts the number of photons in an optical field. This goal has been largely met with the development of transition edge sensors which can count up to roughly 20 photons with efficiencies over 95%. This thesis presents three experiments that employ these detectors to characterize and prepare quantum states of light.
Firstly, we develop a weak-field homodyne detector. By rep...
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Authors
Contributors
+ Lvovsky, A
Role:
Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0003-3165-6654
+ Patel, R
Role:
Supervisor
+ Walmsley, I
Role:
Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0002-4714-0575
+ Steane, A
Role:
Examiner
+ Banaszek, K
Role:
Examiner
Funding
+ Oriel College, University of Oxford
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Programme:
Basil Reeve Graduate Scholarship
+ Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Programme:
Postgraduate Scholarship – Doctoral program
Funder identifier:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010354
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2020-11-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Thekkadath, GS
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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