Highly efficient single-photon detection at communication wavelengths by use of upconversion in reverse-proton-exchanged periodically poled LiNbO 3 waveguides

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1725-1727

  Langrock, Garsten ^a   Diamanti, Eleni ^a   Roussev, Rostislav V ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a   Fejer, M M ^a   Takesue, Hiroki ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; DETECTION SYSTEMS; QUENCHING CIRCUITS; WAVE FREQUENCY;

DETECTORS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUENCHING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 22144436974     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.001725     Document Type: Article

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