Extended Data Fig. 3: Binning error reduction.
From: Resolution of 100 photons and quantum generation of unbiased random numbers
Error-rate reduction on photon-number resolution through post-selection of data. (a) By excluding data points with measured areas further from the centre of each bin, the portion of overlap from neighbouring Gaussians can be substantially reduced. The location of the new binning thresholds must be the same fraction of the Gaussian peak width, σn, for each bin. Here, 2σn is chosen. (b) Error rate to incorrectly characterize a true 25 photon event as a function of the proportion of measurement data kept.
