High resolution optical time domain reflectometer based on 1.55um up-conversion photon-counting module

Abstract

We implement a photon-counting Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) at 1.55um which exhibits a high 2-point resolution and a high accuracy. It is based on a low temporal-jitter photon-counting module at 1.55um. This detector is composed of a periodically poled Lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide, which provides a wavelength conversion from near infrared to visible light, and a low jitter silicon photon-counting detector. With this apparatus, we obtain centimetre resolution over a measurement range of tens of kilometres.

6 pages, 4 figures

References in corpus (1)

• GHz QKD at telecom wavelengths using up-conversion detectors

Cited by in corpus (14)

• Photon Counting OTDR : Advantages and Limitations
• Tailoring nonlinear processes for quantum optics with pulsed temporal-mode encodings
• SiPM used as fast Photon-Counting Module and for Multiphoton Detection
• Erasing Distinguishability Using Quantum Frequency Up-Conversion
• Tunable Up-Conversion Photon Detector
• Optical time domain reflectometry with low noise waveguide-coupled superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
• 217 km long distance photon-counting optical time-domain reflectometry based on ultra-low noise up-conversion single photon detector
• Up-conversion single-photon detectors based on integrated periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides
• Compact all-fiber polarization-independent up-conversion single-photon detector
• 1.064-um-band up-conversion single-photon detector
• Integrated four-channel all-fiber up-conversion single-photon-detector with adjustable efficiency and dark count
• Approaches to Single Photon Detection
• Long-range, phase-and-polarization diversity coherent reflectometer
• Dispersion independent long-haul photon counting OTDR