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Long-wavelength-pumped Upconversion Single-photon Detector at 1550 nm: Performance and Noise Analysis

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Author(s)

Jason S. Pelc, Lijun Ma, C. R. Phillips, Q. Zhang, C. Langrock, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang, M. M. Fejer

Abstract

We demonstrate upconversion-assisted single-photon detec¬tion for the 1.55 lm telecommunications based on a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide pumped by a monolithic PPLN optical parametric oscillator. We achieve an internal conversion efficiency of 86%, which results in an overall system detection efficiency of 37%, with excess noise as low as 103 counts s-I. We measure the dark count rate versus the upconversion pump-signal frequency separation and find the results to be consistent with noise photon generation by spontaneous anti-Stokes Raman scattering. These results enable detailed design guidelines for the development of low-noise quantum frequency conversion systems, which will be an important component of fiber-optic quantum networks.
Citation
Optics Express
Volume
19
Issue
22

Keywords

Quantum detectors, Upconversion, Quantum communications, Raman scattering.

Citation

Pelc, J. , Ma, L. , Phillips, C. , Zhang, Q. , Langrock, C. , Slattery, O. , Tang, X. and Fejer, M. (2011), Long-wavelength-pumped Upconversion Single-photon Detector at 1550 nm: Performance and Noise Analysis, Optics Express, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=910068 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created October 16, 2011, Updated October 12, 2021