Efficient single-photon counting at 1.55 μm by intracavity frequency upconversion in a unidirectional ring laser

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Pan, Haifeng ^a   Dong, Huafang ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a   Lu, Wei ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; PUMPING (LASER);

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE EFFECTS; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHING; SINGLE-PHOTON UPCONVERSION;

RING LASERS;

EID: 33750898306     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2378588     Document Type: Article

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