Photon statistics with n>2
Overview

With photon statistics, qualitative statements about the nature of light are possible. In the section existence of the photon - chapter 3, photon statistics up to the photon number n=2 were measured. In this section, an experiment is introduced with which the photon numbers could be resolved up to theoretically n=8. The optical measuring device is known under the name "Time-Multiplexing-Detector" and has been released in 2003 [Ach03], [Fic03]. It is applied for characterising single photon sources and e.g. in quantum cryptography in order to detect specific attacks by a spy (Decoy-State-QKD) [Hwa03], [Mau07].


Chapter 1:
Set-up of the experiment
Chapter 2:
Measuring and analyzing the experiment
Chapter 3:
Statistics of the photon pair source

 



Experiment for resolving the photon number up to theoretically n=8