High-speed single-photon frequency upconversion with synchronous pump pulses

Xiaorong Gu; Yao Li; Haifeng Pan; E. Wu; Heping Zeng

doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2024329

High-speed single-photon frequency upconversion with synchronous pump pulses

Xiaorong Gu^*
, Yao Li
, Haifeng Pan
, E. Wu
, Heping Zeng

^*Corresponding author for this work

East China Normal University

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Abstract

Single-photon signals at 1.56 μ were converted into the visible region by sum-frequency generation, with synchronous pump pulses at 1.03 μ in a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal. The signal and pump sources were provided by two synchronized mode-locked fiber lasers at the operation rate of 7.88 MHz. Such a high-speed single-photon upconversion system has shown an overall detection efficiency of 10.4%. The corresponding background noise was measured to be 3.3×10³ s^-1. The noise-equivalent power in this scheme was 9.93×10^-17 W/Hz^1/2, which was the lowest compared to the other upconversion systems with similar pump and signal wavelengths.

Original language	English
Article number	5286845
Pages (from-to)	1748-1752
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume	15
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2024329
State	Published - Nov 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Frequency upconversion
Nonlinear optics
Quantum detectors
Single-photon detection

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