Mid-infrared single-photon counting

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1094-1096

  Temporão, Guilherme ^a   Tanzilli, Sébastien ^a   Zbinden, Hugo ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a   Aellen, Thierry ^b   Giovannini, Marcella ^b   Faist, Jérome ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Universite de Neuchatel Institut de Physique   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR CRYSTAL; PUMP POWER; SILICON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION; TWO-STAGE SCHEME;

CRYSTALS; INFRARED RADIATION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; PHOTODIODES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILICON;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33744811656     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.001094     Document Type: Article

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