Demonstration of a Wavelength-Converter-Based 1550-nm Photon-Counting Receiver with Better Than 2 Incident Photon/Bit Sensitivity

Matthew E. Grein; Laura E. Elgin; Bryan S. Robinson; Scott A. Hamilton; Don M. Boroson; Carsten Langrock; Martin M. Fejer

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2007),
paper CMII4

Demonstration of a Wavelength-Converter-Based 1550-nm Photon-Counting Receiver with Better Than 2 Incident Photon/Bit Sensitivity

Matthew E. Grein, Laura E. Elgin, Bryan S. Robinson, Scott A. Hamilton, Don M. Boroson, Carsten Langrock, and Martin M. Fejer

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2007

Baltimore, Maryland United States
6–11 May 2007
ISBN: 1557528349

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M. E. Grein, L. E. Elgin, B. S. Robinson, S. A. Hamilton, D. M. Boroson, C. Langrock, and M. M. Fejer, "Demonstration of a Wavelength-Converter-Based 1550-nm Photon-Counting Receiver with Better Than 2 Incident Photon/Bit Sensitivity," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies, OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2007), paper CMII4.

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Abstract

We implemented a photon-counting optical receiver at 1550 µm with periodically-poled lithium niobate and a silicon Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode. We measured a sensitivity of 1.9 incident photons/bit at 18.8 Mb/s for a single detector.

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