Abstract
We demonstrate high fidelity quantum state reconstruction of coherent and thermal states of light using a single NbN superconducting single photon detector (SSPD). SSPDs outperform commonly used avalanche photodiodes for the task of quantum state reconstruction.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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