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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

Telecom-band Michelson-type two-photon interferometer with photon-number-resolving single-photon detection

Akio Yoshizawa, Daiji Fukuda, Hidemi Tsuchida

Published Jun 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

Experimental evaluation of a fiber-optic Michelson-type two-photon interferometer operating at 1550 nm was presented using a superconducting transition edge sensor as a photon-number-resolving single-photon detector. We monitored two-photon detection events to observe photon bunching.
DOI
10.1109/cleopr.2013.6600233

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