Title :
Telecom-band Michelson-type two-photon interferometer with photon-number-resolving single-photon detection
Author :
Yoshizawa, Akira ; Fukuda, D. ; Tsuchida, H.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
fDate :
June 30 2013-July 4 2013
Abstract :
Experimental evaluation of a fiber-optic Michelson-type two-photon interferometer operating at 1550 nm was presented using a superconducting transition edge sensor as a photon-number-resolving single-photon detector. We monitored two-photon detection events to observe photon bunching.
Keywords :
Michelson interferometers; fibre optic sensors; superconducting photodetectors; two-photon processes; fiber-optic Michelson-type two-photon interferometer; photon bunching; photon-number-resolving single-photon detection; superconducting transition edge sensor; telecom-band Michelson-type two-photon interferometer; two-photon detection; wavelength 1550 nm; Band-pass filters; Coherence; Detectors; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber sensors; Optical interferometry; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600233
