1.5 μm photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry with a single-photon detector based on upconversion in a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 727-729

  Diamanti, Eleni ^a   Langrock, Carsten ^a   Fejer, M M ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a   Takesue, Hiroki ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY UPCONVERSION; OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (OTDR); SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; REFLECTOMETERS; SILICON; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33645748453     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.000727     Document Type: Article

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