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Limitations on Building Single-photon-resolution Detection Devices

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Abstract

Single-photon resolution detectors can tell the difference between incoming wave packets of n and n+1 photons. I will show that it is impossible to construct a photodetector with single-photon resolution when we are restricted to single-photon sources, linear optical elements and projective measurements with standard (non-photon-number discriminating) photodetectors.

© 2003 Optical Society of America

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