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

2018/10/12 by Fedder, Helmut, Oesterwind, Steffen, Wick, Markus +10
#FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1810.05744

Abstract

We showcase an optical random sampling scope that exploits single photon counting and apply it to characterize optical transceivers. We study single photon detectors with a jitter down to 40 ps. The method can be extended beyond 100 GHz.

Related

• Characterization on Practical Photon Counting Receiver in Optical Scattering Communication
• Jitter in photon-number-resolved detection by superconducting nanowires
• Noise Mitigation in Single Microwave Photon Counting by Cascaded Quantum Measurements
• Sine gating detector with simple filtering for low-noise infra-red single photon detection at room temperature
• Single-Photon Signal Sideband Detection for High-Power Michelson Interferometers