Absolute measurement of quantum efficiency of photon-counting photomultiplier using quantum two-photon field and a ratio between single- and double-electron peaks

Aladar Czitrovszky; Alexander V. Sergienko; Peter Jani; Attila Nagy

doi:10.1117/12.354817

19 July 1999 Absolute measurement of quantum efficiency of photon-counting photomultiplier using quantum two-photon field and a ratio between single- and double-electron peaks

Aladar Czitrovszky, Alexander V. Sergienko, Peter Jani, Attila Nagy

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Proceedings Volume 3749, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354817
Event: ICO XVIII 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, 1999, San Francisco, CA, United States

Abstract

An existence of pairs of rigorously correlated photons (biphotons) from nonlinear parametric down conversion has made it possible to develop a technique for measuring the absolute value of quantum efficiency of the optical detectors, both in photon-counting and in analog regimes, without using any standard light sources. A new technique for the measurement of quantum efficiency using single photomultiplier was evaluated. It is based on the measurement of the ratio between the single- and double- electron peaks in its pulse-height distribution.

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Aladar Czitrovszky, Alexander V. Sergienko, Peter Jani, and Attila Nagy "Absolute measurement of quantum efficiency of photon-counting photomultiplier using quantum two-photon field and a ratio between single- and double-electron peaks", Proc. SPIE 3749, 18th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, (19 July 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354817

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