Photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry using a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2583-2588

  Hu, Junhui ^a,b   Zhao, Qingyuan ^a   Zhang, Xuping ^a   Zhang, Labao ^a   Zhao, Xiaodong ^a   Kang, Lin ^a   Wu, Peiheng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Optical fiber sensors; optical time domain reflectometry; photon counting; superconducting nanowire single photon detector

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; FIBER SENSOR; HIGH REPETITION RATE; LOW NOISE; MEASUREMENT TIME; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON DETECTOR; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE;

IMAGE RESOLUTION; NANOWIRES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TIMING JITTER;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84863938233     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2203786     Document Type: Article

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