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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Reduced Effect of Single-Photon-Detector Deadtime Using a Switchable Detector Array in an Orbital-Angular-Momentum (OAM) Encoded Quantum System

Cong Liu, Yongxiong Ren, Jiapeng Zhao, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Guodong Xie, Kai Pang, Haoqian Song, Zhe Zhao, Zhe Wang, Long Li, Joshua C. Bienfang, Alan L. Migdall, Moshe Tur, Robert W. Boyd, Alan Eli Willner

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

We explore using a switchable detector array to reduce the deadtime effect in an OAM-encoded quantum system. For a 4-OAM-state system, the switchable 16-detector array could provide >15X incident photon rate improvement, as compared to a non-switchable 4-detector array.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2017.ff1e.4

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