A novel detector combining phase sensitivity and photon-number resolution is experimentally characterized by measuring its positive-operator-value measurement set. Direct application to tomographic reconstruction of heralded single-photon states is presented.
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Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Date of Conference: 16-21 May 2010