TY - JOUR A1 - Coldenstrodt-Ronge, Hendrik B. A1 - Lundeen, Jeff S. A1 - Pregnell, Kenny L. A1 - Feito, Alvaro A1 - Smith, Brian J. A1 - Mauerer, Wolfgang A1 - Silberhorn, Christine A1 - Eisert, Jens A1 - Plenio, Martin B. A1 - Walmsley, Ian A. T1 - A proposed testbed for detector tomography JF - Journal of Modern Optics N2 - Measurement is the only part of a general quantum system that has yet to be characterised experimentally in a complete manner. Detector tomography provides a procedure for doing just this; an arbitrary measurement device can be fully characterised, and thus calibrated, in a systematic way without access to its components or its design. The result is a reconstructed POVM containing the measurement operators associated with each measurement outcome. We consider two detectors, a single-photon detector and a photon-number counter, and propose an easily realised experimental apparatus to perform detector tomography on them. We also present a method of visualising the resulting measurement operators. Y1 - 2009 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340802304929 VL - 56 IS - 2-3 SP - 432 EP - 441 PB - Taylor&Francis ER -