Demonstration of a 1550-nm photon-counting receiver with ≪ 0.5 detected photon-per-bit sensitivity at 187.5 Mb/s

Author

Grein, Matthew E. ; Elgin, Laura E. ; Robinson, Bryan S. ; Kachelmyer, Alan L. ; Caplan, David O. ; Stevens, Mark L. ; Carney, John J. ; Hamilton, Scott A. ; Boroson, Don M. ; Langrock, Carsten ; Fejer, M.M.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Lexington, MA

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We implemented a photon-counting optical receiver using a periodically-poled lithium niobate waveguide and an emulated array of silicon Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes. We achieved a sensitivity of < 0.5 detected photons/bit at 187.5 Mb/s.

Keywords

avalanche photodiodes; integrated optoelectronics; lithium compounds; optical arrays; optical receivers; optical waveguides; photon counting; silicon; LiNbO₃; bit rate 187.5 Mbit/s; optical communication; periodically-poled lithium niobate waveguide; photon-counting optical receiver; silicon Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes; wavelength 1550 nm; Avalanche photodiodes; Laboratories; Optical arrays; Optical fiber communication; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Pulse modulation; Timing jitter; (060.4510) Optical communications; (190.7220) Upconversion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4572148