Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

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

Published

Author(s)

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

Keywords

Correlated bi-photon spectroscopy, up-conversion detector, up-conversion spectrometer

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 March 28, 2024)
Created April 28, 2013, Updated October 12, 2021