Ultralow noise up-conversion detector and spectrometer for the telecom band

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 13986-13991

  Shentu, Guo Liang ^a   Pelc, Jason S ^b   Wang, Xiao Dong ^c   Sun, Qi Chao ^a   Zheng, Ming Yang ^a   Fejer, M M ^b   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Pan, Jian Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID NITROGEN;

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; LONG WAVELENGTH; NEW DETECTORS; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; PPLN WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; UP-CONVERSION; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

SPECTROMETERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRANSDUCER; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84879374892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.013986     Document Type: Article

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