Ultrabroadband coherence-domain imaging using parametric downconversion and superconducting single-photon detectors at 1064 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 4009-4017

  Mohan, Nishant ^a   Minaeva, Olga ^a,b   Goltsman, Gregory N ^b   Saleh, Mohammed F ^a   Nasr, Magued B ^a   Sergienko, Alexander V ^a,c   Saleh, Bahaa E A ^a,d   Teich, Malvin C ^a,c  

^a Boston University College of Engineering   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; BANDWIDTH; LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS;

ADJUSTABLE BANDWIDTH; COHERENCE-DOMAIN IMAGING; NITROCELLULOSE MEMBRANES; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; STOICHIOMETRIC LITHIUM TANTALATES; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 67749103743     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004009     Document Type: Article

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