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On-chip, photon-number-resolving, telecom-band detectors for scalable photonic information processing

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Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Nick Thomas-Peter, James Gates, Adriana E. Lita, Benjamin Metcalf, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Anna E. Fox, Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Justin Spring, Nathan Langford, Richard P. Mirin, Peter Smith, Ian Walmsley, Sae Woo Nam

Abstract

We demonstrate an integrated photon-number resolving detector, operating in the telecom band at 1550 nm, employing an evanescently coupled design that allows the detector to be placed at arbitrary locations within a planar optical circuit. Up to 5 photons are resolved in the guided optical mode via absorption from the evanescent field into a tungsten transition-edge sensor. The detection efficiency of the absorbing tungsten region is 7.2%.
Proceedings Title
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics & Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS)
Conference Dates
May 6-11, 2012
Conference Location
San Jose, CA

Keywords

single photon detector, integrated optical circuit

Citation

Gerrits, T. , Thomas-Peter, N. , Gates, J. , Lita, A. , Metcalf, B. , Calkins, B. , Tomlin, N. , Fox, A. , Lamas-Linares, A. , Spring, J. , Langford, N. , Mirin, R. , Smith, P. , Walmsley, I. and Nam, S. (2012), On-chip, photon-number-resolving, telecom-band detectors for scalable photonic information processing, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics & Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS), San Jose, CA, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=910312 (Accessed December 5, 2024)

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Created May 6, 2012, Updated February 19, 2017