Experimental study of high sensitivity infrared spectrometer with waveguide-based upconversion detector

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14395-14404

  Ma, Lijun ^a   Slattery, Oliver ^a   Tang, Xiao ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; WAVEGUIDES;

HIGH SENSITIVITY; INFRARED REGIONS; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; SIGNAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCIES; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL; ULTRA-HIGH-SENSITIVITY;

SPECTROMETERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 68349131568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014395     Document Type: Article

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