Photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry with superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Author

Qingyuan Zhao ; Junhui Hu ; Xuping Zhang ; Labao Zhang ; Tao Jia ; Lin Kang ; Jian Chen ; Peiheng Wu

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. of Supercond. Electron., Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

7-11 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We applied superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors to photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR). The setup was optimized to minimize the timing jitter of the photon detections to 42 ps. Therefore, we achieved a spatial resolution of 4 mm in our OTDR system. Based on the super high spatial resolution, we observed the reflection from a small fiber coil and see the peak width spread.

Keywords

nanowires; optical time-domain reflectometry; photon counting; superconducting photodetectors; timing jitter; photon counting optical time domain reflectometry; photon detection; superconducting nanowire single photon detectors; timing jitter; Detectors; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber sensors; Photonics; Reflection; Spatial resolution; optical time-domain reflectometry; spatial resolution; superconducting nanowire single-photon detector; timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Superconductive Electronics Conference (ISEC), 2013 IEEE 14th International

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6369-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEC.2013.6604287

Filename

6604287