Estimation of photon counting statistics with imperfect detectors*

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61627820, 11674306, 61590932, and 61377048).

Han Xiao-Chuan1, Zhuang Dong-Wei1, Li Yu-Xuan1, Song Jun-Feng1, †, Zhang Yong-Sheng2, ‡
       

(color online) Six quantum states with a mean photon number of 3 detected by on/off detector arrays. Photon number distributions of (a) coherent, (b) thermal, (c) Fock, (d) squeeze-vacuum, (e) even coherent, and (f) odd coherent states with N = 4, 16, 64, and 256, respectively.