Multiplexed Single-Mode Wavelength-to-Time Mapping of Multimode Light
Abstract
We demonstrate that photonic lanterns based on tapered multicore fibres provide an efficient way to couple multimode states of light to a two-dimensional array of Single-Photon Avalanche Detectors (SPADs), each of which has its own Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) for Time-Correlated Single-Photon-Counting (TCSPC). Exploiting this capability, we demonstrate multiplexed single-mode wavelength-to-time conversion of multimode states of light using a multicore-fibre photonic lantern with 121 single-mode cores, coupled in a one-to-one fashion to 121 SPADS on a 32 32 pixel CMOS SPAD array. The application of photonic lanterns for coupling multimode light to SPAD arrays in this manner may find wide-ranging applications in areas such as Raman spectroscopy, coherent LIDAR and quantum optics.
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@article{arxiv.1604.02495,
title = {Multiplexed Single-Mode Wavelength-to-Time Mapping of Multimode Light},
author = {Harikumar K. Chandrasekharan and Frauke Izdebski and Itandehui Gris-Sánchez and Nikola Krstajić and Richard Walker and Helen L. Bridle and Paul A. Dalgarno and William N. MacPherson and Robert K. Henderson and Tim A. Birks and Robert R. Thomson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02495},
year = {2017}
}
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15 pages, 4 figures