%0 Journal Article
%T Measuring the quantum nature of light with a single source and a single detector
%A Steudle, Gesine A.
%A Schietinger, Stefan
%A Höckel, David
%A Dorenbos, Sander N.
%A Zadeh, Iman E.
%A Zwiller, Valery
%A Benson, Oliver
%J Phys. Rev. A
%D 2012
%V 86
%N 5
%I American Physical Society
%F Steudle_etal2012
%O exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=1089), last updated on Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:32:48 -0500
%X An elementary experiment in optics consists of a light source and a detector. Yet, if the source generates nonclassical correlations such an experiment is capable of unambiguously demonstrating the quantum nature of light. We realized such an experiment with a defect center in diamond and a superconducting detector. Previous experiments relied on more complex setups, such as the Hanbury Brown and Twiss configuration, where a beam splitter directs light to two photodetectors, creating the false impression that the beam splitter is a fundamentally required element. As an additional benefit, our results provide a simplification of the widely used photon-correlation techniques.
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%R 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.053814
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.86.053814
%P 053814