Multiplexed photon-counting detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6900, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Polyakov, Sergey V ^a,b   Schettini, V ^c   Degiovanni, I P ^c   Brida, G ^c   Migdall, Alan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Correlated photons; Detector; Down conversion; Statistical methods; Times photon counting

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CORRELATED PHOTONS; DOWN CONVERSION; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; TIMES PHOTON COUNTING;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 43249096728     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.768155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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