• DocumentCode
    1769764
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988530