%0 Journal Article %T Absolute Calibration of Analog Detectors by using Parametric Down Conversion %A Giorgio Brida %A Maria Chekhova %A Marco Genovese %A Alexander Penin %A Maria Luisa Rastello %A Ivano Ruo-Berchera %J Physics %D 2007 %I arXiv %X In this paper we report our systematic study of a promising absolute calibration technique of analog photo-detectors, based on the properties of parametric down conversion. Our formal results and a preliminary uncertainty analysis show that the proposed method can be effectively developed with interesting applications to metrology. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2991v1