Title :
Experimental realization of a photon-number-resolving homodyne detector
Author :
Duan Huang ; Erhu Han ; Weiqi Liu ; Dakai Lin ; Chao Wang ; Peng Huang ; Guihua Zeng
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a photon-number-resolving homodyne detector based on InGaAs PIN photodiodes with active phase compensation. Our detector preserves the capable of detecting single photon and allows 20 photons to be precisely discriminated.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; compensation; gallium arsenide; homodyne detection; indium compounds; p-i-n photodiodes; photodetectors; photon counting; InGaAs; PIN photodiodes; active phase compensation; cooling balanced homodyne measurement; photon-number-resolving homodyne detector; single photon detector; Detectors; Indium gallium arsenide; Noise; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Phase modulation; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
