High-speed single-photon frequency upconversion with synchronous pump pulses

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1748-1752

  Gu, Xiaorong ^a   Li, Yao ^a   Pan, Haifeng ^a   Wu, E ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency upconversion; Nonlinear optics; Quantum detectors; Single photon detection

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY UPCONVERSION; HIGH-SPEED; MODE LOCKED FIBER LASER; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; OPERATION RATES; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE CRYSTALS; PHOTON FREQUENCY; PHOTON UPCONVERSION; PUMP PULSE; PUMP SOURCES; QUANTUM DETECTORS; SIGNAL WAVELENGTH; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION; UP-CONVERSION; VISIBLE REGION;

DETECTORS; FIBER LASERS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 72149115947     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2024329     Document Type: Article

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