General Model of Photon-Pair Detection with an Image Sensor

Phys Rev Lett. 2018 May 18;120(20):203604. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.203604.

Abstract

We develop an analytic model that relates intensity correlation measurements performed by an image sensor to the properties of photon pairs illuminating it. Experiments using an effective single-photon counting camera, a linear electron-multiplying charge-coupled device camera, and a standard CCD camera confirm the model. The results open the field of quantum optical sensing using conventional detectors.