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Tunable up-conversion detector for single photon and bi-photon near-infrared spectroscopic applications

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Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Paulina Kuo, Yong-Su Kim, Xiao Tang

Abstract

A tunable waveguide-based frequency up-conversion detector is used for single photon level near infrared (IR) spectroscopic measurements. Applications include direct spectroscopic measurement of week near IR signals and remote bi-photon spectroscopy. We have demonstrated direct spectroscopy of single photon near IR signals from a greatly attenuated laser and a single photon source. We further applied the up-conversion spectrometer for frequency correlated bi-photon spectroscopy using a single photon source of non-degenerate photon pairs at 1310 nm (near IR) and 895 nm. In correlated bi-photon spectroscopy, the spectral function at one wavelength range of a remote object can be reproduced by locally measuring another (near IR) wavelength range using the up-conversion spectrometer and monitoring the coincidence counts. A near IR single photon detection efficiency of 32 % has been achieved with the up-conversion spectrometer. The spectral resolution of the system is approximately 0.2 nm at 1310 nm based on the acceptance width of the up-conversion chip used. In bi-photon spectroscopy, the spectral resolution for the correlated photons at 895 nm is approximately 0.1 nm. The sensitivity achieved using the up-conversion detector is -126 dBm at 1310 nm.
Proceedings Title
Proceedings of SPIE
Conference Dates
April 29-May 3, 2013
Conference Location
Baltimore, MD, US
Conference Title
SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing 2013
Pub Type
Conferences

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Keywords

Correlated bi-photon spectroscopy, up-conversion detector, up-conversion spectrometer
Quantum information science

Citation

Slattery, O. , Ma, L. , Kuo, P. , Kim, Y. and Tang, X. (2013), Tunable up-conversion detector for single photon and bi-photon near-infrared spectroscopic applications, Proceedings of SPIE, Baltimore, MD, US, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=913898 (Accessed October 25, 2025)

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Created April 28, 2013, Updated October 12, 2021
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