Title :
High-speed photon-number-resolved detection with sinusoidally gated multipixel photon counters
Author :
Yan Liang ; Min Ren ; Wu, E. ; Guang Wu ; Heping Zeng
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Precision Spectrosc., East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We demonstrated photon-number resolved detection with sinusoidally gated multipixel photon counter operated at room temperature. Sinusoidal gating minimized the capacitive response noise and improved the photon-number-resolving performance at high repetition rate up to 200 MHz.
Keywords :
optical noise; photodetectors; photon counting; capacitive response noise minimization; high speed photon-number-resolved detection; photon-number-resolving performance; repetition rate; room temperature; sinusoidal gating; sinusoidally gated multipixel photon counters; Band-pass filters; Detectors; Histograms; Laser modes; Logic gates; Optical fiber amplifiers; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
