Fast data-driven spectrometer with direct measurement of time and frequency for multiple single photons
arXiv:2304.11999 · doi:10.1364/OE.543511
Abstract
We present a single-photon-sensitive spectrometer, based on a linear array of 512 single-photon avalanche diode detectors, with 0.04 nm spectral and 40 ps temporal resolutions. We employ a fast data-driven operation that allows direct measurement of time and frequency for simultaneous single photons, time- and frequency-stamping each single-photon detection. Our results combine excellent temporal and spectral resolution. We benchmark our result against the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle limit of hbar/2 for time and energy, and we are only a factor of 10 above it, despite the simplicity of our experimental setup, including room temperature operation. This work opens numerous applications in both classical and quantum photonics, especially when both spectral and temporal properties of single photons are exploited.
References in corpus (41)
- Advances in Quantum Metrology
- Entanglement of Orbital Angular Momentum States of Photons
- Significant-loophole-free test of Bell's theorem with entangled photons
- A strong loophole-free test of local realism
- Near optimal single photon sources in the solid state
- Detecting Single Infrared Photons with 93% System Efficiency
- Ultra-bright source of polarization-entangled photons
- Heralded Generation of Ultrafast Single Photons in Pure Quantum States
- Demonstrating sub-3 ps temporal resolution in a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
- On-demand semiconductor single-photon source with near-unity indistinguishability
- Provably-Secure and High-Rate Quantum Key Distribution with Time-Bin Qudits
- Tunable Indistinguishable Photons From Remote Quantum Dots
- Photon temporal modes: a complete framework for quantum information science
- Unconditional violation of the shot noise limit in photonic quantum metrology
- Generation of polarization entangled photon pairs and violation of Bell's inequality using spontaneous four-wave mixing in fiber loop
- Frequency-domain Hong-Ou-Mandel interference
- Broadband on-chip single-photon spectrometer
- Joint Spectral Characterization of Photon-Pair Sources
- A superconducting-nanowire single-photon camera with 400,000 pixels
- Temporal Modes in Quantum Optics: Then and Now
- Resolution of 100 photons and quantum generation of unbiased random numbers
- Multidimensional quantum-enhanced target detection via spectro-temporal correlation measurements
- Quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays
- Active demultiplexing of single-photons from a solid-state source
- Pulsed single-photon spectrometer by frequency-to-time mapping using chirped fiber Bragg gratings
- Measuring the single-photon temporal-spectral wave function
- Heralded spectroscopy reveals exciton-exciton correlations in single colloidal quantum dots
- Optimal imaging of remote bodies using quantum detectors
- Quantum metrology timing limits of the Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer and of general two-photon measurements
- Two-photon amplitude interferometry for precision astrometry
- Measuring ultrafast time-bin qudits
- Precisely determining photon-number in real-time
- Experimental single-photon pulse characterization by electro-optic shearing interferometry
- Time-resolved double-slit experiment with entangled photons
- Quantum-Assisted Optical Interferometers: Instrument Requirements
- Multivariate Discrimination in Quantum Target Detection
- Towards Quantum Telescopes: Demonstration of a Two-Photon Interferometer for Quantum-Assisted Astronomy
- Gain-induced group delay in spontaneous parametric down-conversion
- Imaging of X-ray Pairs in a Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion Process
- Multifrequency-resolved Hanbury Brown-Twiss Effect
- Inter-pixel cross-talk as background to two-photon interference effects in SPAD arrays