TY - GEN
T1 - Mid-infrared coincidence measurements based on intracavity frequency conversion
AU - Piccione, S.
AU - Mancinelli, M.
AU - Trenti, A.
AU - Fontana, G.
AU - Dam, J.
AU - Tidemand-Lichtenberg, Peter
AU - Pedersen, C.
AU - Pavesi, L.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In the last years, the Mid Infrared (MIR) spectral region has attracted the attention of many areas of science and technology, opening the way to important applications, such as molecular imaging, remote sensing, free- space communication and environmental monitoring. However, the development of new sources of light, such as quantum cascade laser, was not followed by an adequate improvement in the MIR detection system, able to exceed the current challenges. Here we demonstrate the single-photon counting capability of a new detection system, based on efficient up-converter modules, by proving the correlated nature of twin photons pairs at about 3.1μm, opening the way to the extension of quantum optics experiments in the MIR.
AB - In the last years, the Mid Infrared (MIR) spectral region has attracted the attention of many areas of science and technology, opening the way to important applications, such as molecular imaging, remote sensing, free- space communication and environmental monitoring. However, the development of new sources of light, such as quantum cascade laser, was not followed by an adequate improvement in the MIR detection system, able to exceed the current challenges. Here we demonstrate the single-photon counting capability of a new detection system, based on efficient up-converter modules, by proving the correlated nature of twin photons pairs at about 3.1μm, opening the way to the extension of quantum optics experiments in the MIR.
KW - MIR
KW - Coincidence measurements
KW - Frequency conversion
KW - Nonlinear optics
KW - Spontaneous parametric down conversion
KW - MIR single photon detector
KW - Room temperature MIR detector
KW - MIR quantum optics
U2 - 10.1117/12.2305713
DO - 10.1117/12.2305713
M3 - Article in proceedings
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials and Devices XVII
A2 - , Konstantin L. Vodopyanov
A2 - , Kenneth L. Schepler
PB - SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
T2 - SPIE Photonics West LASE 2018
Y2 - 27 January 2018 through 1 February 2018
ER -