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Dual-channel, single-photon upconversion detector near 1300 nm

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Paulina S. Kuo, Jason S. Pelc, Oliver T. Slattery, Martin M. Fejer, Xiao Tang

Abstract

Upconversion of 1.3-micron photons and detection using silicon avalanche photodiodes (Si APDs) can produce high photon detection efficiencies (PDEs) with low dark count rates. We demonstrate a novel two-channel device based on a phase-modulated, periodically poled LiNbO3 waveguide that mixes 1302- nm signal photons with two pump beams at 1556 and 1571 nm. Both channels showed high PDEs with very low dark counts. Using wavelength- to time-division multiplexing in this dual-channel device, we produced clock rates that exceed the timing-jitter-limited rates of a system based on one Si APD. Higher clock rates are of interest for improved quantum communication systems.
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Proceedings of SPIE
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Quantum detectors, single photon, nonlinear optics, sum frequency generation
Quantum information science

Citation

Kuo, P. , Pelc, J. , Slattery, O. , Fejer, M. and Tang, X. (2012), Dual-channel, single-photon upconversion detector near 1300 nm, Proceedings of SPIE, [online], https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946250 (Accessed October 8, 2025)

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Created November 5, 2012, Updated November 10, 2018
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