Upconversion detection near 2 μm at the single photon level

Optics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 4985-4987

  Shentu, Guo Liang ^a   Xia, Xiu Xiu ^a   Sun, Qi Chao ^a,b   Pelc, Jason S ^c   Fejer, M M ^c   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Pan, Jian Wei ^a  

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

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS MONITORING; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE; PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCY; PUMP WAVELENGTH; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL; SPECTRAL WINDOWS; VOLUME BRAGG GRATING (VBG);

DETECTORS; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84889063087     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.004985     Document Type: Article

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