Photon-counting 1.55 μm optical communications with pulse-position modulation and a multimode upconversion single-photon receiver

Author

Albota, Marius A. ; Robinson, Bryan S. ; Caplan, David O. ; Hamilton, Scott A. ; Boroson, Don M.

Author_Institution

MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA

fYear

2008

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

162

Abstract

We report single-photon frequency upconversion of multimode light from 1.55 to 0.532 mum and demonstrate an end-to-end optical link that emulates photon-starved communications and atmospheric propagation. Using 64-ary PPM and a 1/2-rate serially concatenated turbo code we achieve a decoded efficiency of 0.3 detected photons/bit.

Keywords

atmospheric light propagation; optical frequency conversion; optical links; optical receivers; photon counting; pulse position modulation; turbo codes; atmospheric propagation; end-to-end optical link; multimode upconversion single-photon receiver; optical communication; photon-counting; photon-starved communication; pulse-position modulation; serially concatenated turbo code; single-photon frequency upconversion; wavelength 1.55 mum; Concatenated codes; Decoding; Frequency; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Pulse modulation; Turbo codes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the

Conference_Location

Acapulco

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1931-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1932-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688538

Filename

4688538