1.5-μm single photon counting using polarization-independent up-conversion detector

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 13067-13072

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

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTODETECTORS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE (PPLN); PHOTON DETECTORS; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; UP CONVERSION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33845777026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.013067     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. N. Gisin, G. Ribordy, W. Tittel and H. Zbinden, "Quantum cryptography," Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 145-195 (2002).
2. G. Ribordy, J. D. Gautier, H. Zbinden and N. Gisin, "Performance of InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiodes as gated-mode photon counters," Appl. Opt. 37, 2272-2277 (1998).
3. M. A. Albota and F. N. C. Wong, "Efficient single-photon counting at 1.55 μm by means of frequency upconversion," Opt. Lett. 29, 1449 (2004).
4. A. P. Vandevender and P. G. Kwiat, "High efficiency single photon detection via frequency up-conversion," J. Mod. Opt. 15, 1433-1445 (2004).
5. R. V. Roussev, C. Langrock, J. R. Kurz and M. M. Fejer, "Periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide sumfrequency generator for efficient single-photon detection at communication wavelengths," Opt. Lett. 29, 1518 (2004).
6. 3 waveguides," Opt. Lett., 30, 1725 (2005).
7. S. Tanzilli, W. Tittel, M. Halder, O. Alibart, P. Baldi, N. Gisin and H. Zbinden, "A photonic quantum information interface," Nature 437, 116-120 (2005).
8. H. Takesue, E. Diamanti, T. Honjo, C. Langrock, M. M. Fejer, K. Inoue and Y. Yamamoto, "Differential phase shift quantum key distribution experiment over 105 km fibre," New J. Phys. 7, 232 (2005).
9. R. T. Thew, S. Tanzilli, L. Krainer, S. C. Zeller, A. Rochas, I. Rech, S. Cova, H. Zbinden and N. Gisin, "Low-jitter up-conversion detectors for telecom wavelength QKD," New J. Phys. 8 32 (2006).
10. H. Takesue, E. Diamanti, C. Langrock, M. M. Fejer and Y. Yamamoto, "10-GHz clock differential phase shift quantum key distribution experiment," Opt. Express 14 9522 (2006).
11. E. Diamanti, H. Takesue, C. Langrock, M. M. Fejer and Y. Yamamoto, "100 km secure differential phase shift quantum key distribution with low jitter up-conversion detectors," arXiv: quant-ph/0608110.
12. E. Diamanti, C. Langrock, M. M. Fejer, Y. Yamamoto and H. Takesue, "1.5-μm photon-counting optical time domain reflectometry with a single-photon detector using up-conversion in a PPLN waveguide," Opt. Lett. 31, 727 (2006).
13. M. A. Albota, F. N. C. Wong and J. Shapiro, "Polarization- independent frequency up-conversion for quantum optical communication," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 23, 918 (2006).
14. 3 waveguides," Electron. Lett. 36, 66 (2000).
15. K. Inoue, E. Waks and Y. Yamamoto, "Differential phase shift quantum key distribution," Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 037902 (2002).
16. K. Inoue, E. Waks and Y. Yamamoto, "Differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution using coherent light," Phys. Rev. A 68, 022317 (2003).
17. T. Honjo, K. Inoue and H. Takahashi, "Differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution experiment with a planar light-wave circuit Mach-Zehnder interferometer," Opt. Lett. 29, 2797 (2004).