• DocumentCode
    470348
  • Title

    High accuracy photon-counting detector calibration and independent verification of a correlated-photon calibration technique

  • Author

    Polyakov, Sergey V. ; Migdall, Alan L.

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We characterized a two-photon method to calibrate photon-counting detectors. We verified this method by comparison to a national primary standard detector scale. This comparison showed agreement of the two methods to 0.14(14) % (k=1).
  • Keywords
    calibration; photodetectors; photon counting; two-photon processes; correlated-photon calibration technique; independent verification; photon-counting detector calibration; two-photon method; Calibration; Delay; Detectors; Educational institutions; Electronic equipment testing; NIST; Photonics; Power measurement; Pulse measurements; Uncertainty;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452553
  • Filename
    4452553