Characterization of Electro-Optical Devices with Low Jitter Single\n Photon Detectors -- Towards an Optical Sampling Oscilloscope Beyond 100 GHz

2018/10/12 by Helmut Fedder, Steffen Oesterwind, Fedder, Helmut +24
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies #Computer science #Detector #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Jitter #Optics #Optoelectronics #Oscilloscope #Photon #Photon counting #Physics #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Sampling (signal processing) #Scope (computer science) #Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices #Telecommunications #Transceiver #physics.ins-det

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1810.05744

published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · ECOC 2018 demo session paper

arxiv created 2018/10/12 · openalex publication_date 2018/10/12 · arxiv updated 2018/10/16 · openalex created_date 2022/08/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/08

Abstract

We showcase an optical random sampling scope that exploits single photon\ncounting and apply it to characterize optical transceivers. We study single\nphoton detectors with a jitter down to 40 ps. The method can be extended beyond\n100 GHz.\n

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