Photon-number-resolving detection at 1:04 μm via coincidence frequency upconversion

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1722-1724

  Huang, Kun ^a   Gu, Xiaorong ^a   Ren, Min ^a   Jian, Yi ^a   Pan, Haifeng ^a   Wu, Guang ^a   Wu, E ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COHERENT STATE; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION; LONG WAVELENGTH; LOW NOISE; MULTI-PIXEL PHOTON COUNTERS; PARAMETRIC FLUORESCENCE; PHOTON-NUMBER DISTRIBUTION; SYNCHRONIZED PULSE;

COINCIDENCE CIRCUITS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL PUMPING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 79956330721     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001722     Document Type: Article

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