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physics.ins-det2022★ 131 cited

113 km Free-Space Time-Frequency Dissemination at the 19th Decimal Instability

Qi Shen, Jian-Yu Guan, Ji-Gang Ren +28

Optical clock networks play important roles in various fields, such as precise navigation, redefinition of "second" unit, and gravitational tests. To establish a global-scale optic…

physics.ins-det2019★ 41 cited

Spaceborne low-noise single-photon detection for satellite-based quantum communications

Meng Yang, Feihu Xu, Ji-Gang Ren +9

Single-photon detectors (SPDs) play important roles in highly sensitive detection applications, such as fluorescence spectroscopy, remote sensing and ranging, deep space optical co…

physics.ins-det2018★ 1 cited

An ultra-sensitive balanced detector with low noise for continuous-variable quantum key distribution

Qi-Ming Lu, Qi Shen, Yuan Cao +2

A well-balanced detector with high sensitivity and low noise is presented in this paper. The two-stage amplification structure is used to increase electronic gain while keeping an…

physics.ins-det2014★ 10 cited

A Multi-chain Measurements Averaging TDC Implemented in a 40 nm FPGA

Qi Shen, Shubin Liu, Binxiang Qi +4

A high precision and high resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) implemented in a 40 nm fabrication process Virtex-6 FPGA is presented in this paper. The multi-chain measuremen…

physics.ins-det2013★ 10 cited

A Fast Improved Fat Tree Encoder for Wave Union TDC in an FPGA

Qi Shen, Lei Zhao, Shubin Liu +5

Up to the present, the wave union method can achieve the best timing performance in FPGA based TDC designs. However, it should be guaranteed in such a structure that the non-thermo…