High Efficiency Single Photon Up-Conversion in Waveguides and Pump Wavelength Longer than the Signal Wavelength

Award Information

Agency: Department of Commerce

Branch: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Contract: SB1341-08-SE-0675

Agency Tracking Number: 903-08

Amount: $89,974.00

Phase: Phase I

Program: SBIR

Solicitation Topic Code: N/A

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Timeline

Solicitation Year: N/A

Award Year: 2008

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Small Business Information

ADVR, INC.

2310 University Way, Bldg. #1-1

Bozeman, MT 59715

United States

DUNS: N/A

HUBZone Owned: No

Woman Owned: No

Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No

Principal Investigator

Name: Mark Munro
Phone: (406) 522-0388
Email: munro@advr-inc.com

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Abstract

This NIST Phase 1 SBIR effort will demonstrate the feasibility of low noise single photon up conversion using KTiOPO4 (KTP) or LiNbO3 (LN) or Stoichiometric LiTaO3 (SLT) periodically poled waveguides and an 1800nm pump for a high efficiency single photon detector. The key innovation is using low noise periodically poled waveguides with a long wavelength (1800nm) pump leading to higher efficiency single photon detectors when used with Silicon-based avalanche single photon detectors (Si-APD). Use of waveguide Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) for 1535nm to 828.5nm up-conversion coupled with inexpensive and very efficient SI-APD technology is expected to significantly increase single photon detection efficiency while maintaining long fiber optic transmission distance for quantum communication networks and quantum-key-distribution (QKD) systems.

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High Efficiency Single Photon Up-Conversion in Waveguides and Pump Wavelength Longer than the Signal Wavelength