Measuring Nonclassicality of Mesoscopic Twin-Beam States with Silicon Photomultipliers ^†

Abstract

The study of nonclassical properties of quantum states is a relevant topic for fundamental Quantum Optics and Quantum Information applications. In the mesoscopic domain, promising results have been obtained using photon-number-resolving detectors. Here we show recent results achieved with the class of Silicon Photomultipliers: by a proper analysis of the output signal, the nonclassicality of twin-beam states can be detected and exploited.

Keywords

• photon statistics
• photodetectors
• nonlinear optics
• parametric processes