Optimizing Silicon photomultipliers for Quantum Optics

Giovanni Chesi; Luca Malinverno; Alessia Allevi; Romualdo Santoro; Massimo Caccia; Alexander Martemiyanov; Maria Bondani

doi:10.1038/s41598-019-43742-1

Optimizing Silicon photomultipliers for Quantum Optics

Sci Rep. 2019 May 15;9(1):7433. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-43742-1.

Authors

Giovanni Chesi¹, Luca Malinverno¹, Alessia Allevi^{2

3}, Romualdo Santoro¹, Massimo Caccia¹, Alexander Martemiyanov^{1

4}, Maria Bondani⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy.
² Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy. [email protected].
³ Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, CNR, Via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy. [email protected].
⁴ ITEP, Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya 25, 117218, Moscow, Russia.
⁵ Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, CNR, Via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy.

Abstract

Silicon Photomultipliers are potentially ideal detectors for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information studies based on mesoscopic states of light. However, their non-idealities hampered their use so far. An optimal mode of operation has been developed and it is presented here, proving that this class of sensors can actually be exploited for the characterization of both classical and quantum properties of light.