• DocumentCode
    2087285
  • Title

    Quantum frequency translation: efficient single-photon counting at 1.55 /spl mu/m

  • Author

    Wong, Franco N C ; Albota, Marius A. ; Shapiro, Jeffrey H.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Lab. of Electron., MIT, Cambridge, MA
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    21-21 May 2004
  • Firstpage
    658
  • Lastpage
    659
  • Abstract
    We have achieved continuous-wave operation of efficient single-photon detection at 1.55 mum by sum-frequency mixing with a strong pump at 1064 nm in bulk periodically-poled lithium niobate followed by photon counting in the visible
  • Keywords
    lithium compounds; optical frequency conversion; optical materials; optical pumping; photodetectors; photon counting; 1.55 mum; 1064 nm; LiNbO3; periodically-poled lithium niobate; quantum frequency translation; single-photon counting; single-photon detection; sum-frequency mixing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-778-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1366940