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Lock-in detection of single photons after two-step frequency conversion
Andreas Lenhard1, Sebastian Zaske, Christoph Becher
1Fachrichtung 7.2 (Experimentalphysik), Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 66123, Germany.
Optics Letters
|October 18, 2012
Abstract:
We report on cascaded frequency conversion at the single-photon level, consisting of a downconversion from the red (738 nm) to a telecom band (1403 nm) and the reverse upconversion process in the same nonlinear crystal. Detecting the converted single photons suffers from a large noise floor. We were able to recover the signal by implementing a lock-in analyzer technique in the data postprocessing.

