@inbook{4dcd5ae087bb45ff8b3d942494c79508,
title = "Stochastic resonances and gated detection in photon number resolving detectors",
abstract = "Gated avalanche photo-detectors (GAPD) use gated detection and thresholding electronics to act as Geiger counters to indicate presence of photons. They show stationary Poissonian average noise statistics, though we see evidence of underlying non-stationary stochastic resonance. Both the Poissonian and stochastic resonance processes contribute to the experimentally observed dark count, and are described theoretically. To resolve photon numbers from coherent faint light pulses, we use GAPD with an optical recirculating loop. With the temporal separation of the input photons from the pulse, we not only achieve photon number resolution up to n = 0.024, but also bypass the stochastic resonance effects.",
author = "Shree Krishnamoorthy and Harish Ravi and Kumar, \{Pradeep K.\} and Anil Prabhakar",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.; 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology, PHOTOPTICS 2015 ; Conference date: 12-03-2015 Through 14-03-2015",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-30137-2\_10",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319301358",
series = "Springer Proceedings in Physics",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media, LLC",
pages = "157--172",
editor = "Paulo Ribeiro and Maria Raposo",
booktitle = "Photoptics 2015, Revised Selected Papers",
address = "United States",
}