Room temperature photon number resolving detector for infared wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 10750-10759

  Pomarico, Enrico ^a   Sanguinetti, Bruno ^a   Thew, Rob ^a   Zbinden, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; PHOTONS;

COHERENT STATE; DYNAMIC RANGE; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; LOW-INTENSITY; MULTI-PIXEL; MULTIPHOTON QUANTUM; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLVING DETECTOR; POISSONIAN STATISTICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICON AVALANCHE; THERMOELECTRICALLY-COOLED; UP-CONVERSION; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTORS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77952700191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010750     Document Type: Article

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