Single-Photon Generation and Detection (eBook, ePUB)

Physics and Applications

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Single-photon generation and detection is at the forefront of modern optical physics research. This book is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the current status of single-photon techniques and research methods in the spectral region from the visible to the infrared. The use of single photons, produced on demand with well-defined quantum properties, offers an unprecedented set of capabilities that are central to the new area of quantum information and are of revolutionary importance in areas that range from the traditional, such as high sensitivity detection for astronomy, remote sensing, and medical diagnostics, to the exotic, such as secretive surveillance and very long communication links for data transmission on interplanetary missions. The goal of this volume is to provide researchers with a comprehensive overview of the technology and techniques that are available to enable them to better design an experimental plan for its intended purpose. The book will be broken into chapters focused specifically on the development and capabilities of the available detectors and sources to allow a comparative understanding to be developed by the reader along with and idea of how the field is progressing and what can be expected in the near future. Along with this technology, we will include chapters devoted to the applications of this technology, which is in fact much of the driver for its development. This is set to become the go-to reference for this field.

• Covers all the basic aspects needed to perform single-photon experiments and serves as the first reference to any newcomer who would like to produce an experimental design that incorporates the latest techniques
• Provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of single-photon techniques and research methods in the spectral region from the visible to the infrared, thus giving broad background that should enable newcomers to the field to make rapid progress in gaining proficiency
• Written by leading experts in the field, among which, the leading Editor is recognized as having laid down the roadmap, thus providing the reader with an authenticated and reliable source

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780123876966
• Artikelnr.: 40289501

Autorenporträt

Alan Migdall leads the Quantum Optics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose mission is the study and use of nonclassical light sources and detectors for application in absolute metrology, quantum enabled measurements, quantum information, and tests of fundamental physics. He and his group are also engaged in efforts aimed at advancing single-photon source, detector, and processing technologies for these applications. Migdall is a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute, a joint institute of the University of Maryland and NIST. Migdall is also a fellow of the American Physical Society and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland. While he has a long list of publications, recent highlights of his work include the experimental demonstration of a coherent receiver with error rates below the standard quantum limit to a degree far exceeding any previous efforts, demonstration of topologically robust photonic states in an integrated Silicon pho

tonics waveguide chip, tests of nonlocal realism alternatives to quantum mechanics using entangled two-photon light. Other work has involved the development of single photon light sources and the use of two-photon light for absolute measurements of the detection efficiency of single-photon detectors and verifying those results to the highest accuracy yet achieved. Another application in radiometry used two-photon light to determine spectral radiance in the infrared without requiring a calibrated detector or even one sensitive to the infrared. As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Standards, as the field of laser cooling and trapping was getting off the ground, he was part of the team that achieved the first trapping of a neutral atom.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I 1 Introduction and history, Migdall, Cova, Polyakov and Fan 2 Photon statistics, measurements, and measurement tools, Stevens and Nam Part II 3 Photomultipliers, Kume and Fatlowitz 4 Semiconductor-based detectors, Bienfang, Cova, Ghioni and Itzler 5 Novel semiconductor-based detectors, Mirin, Kwiat and Kim 6 Detectors based on thermal effects, Berggren and Nam 7 Hybrid detectors, Wong, Walmsley, Degiovanni, Polyakov and Migdall 8 Detector calibration, Polyakov 9 Detection tomography, Zhang, Walmsley, Coldenstrodt-Ronge and Datta Part III 10 Single-photon sources: dream and reality, Hughes 11 Atomic cascade sources, Aspect and Grangier 12 Parametric down conversion, Christ, White, Fedrizzi, Jennewein, Huebel and Silberhorn 13 Four-wave mixing, Rarity and Kumar 14 Isolated quantum systems; single emitters, Solomon, Kuhn, Lounis, Shields, Roch and Jacques 15 Collectively enhanced Quantum Ensembles, Zhao and Pan