Building Blocks for Integrated Homodyne Detection with Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors / vorgelegt von Maximilian Protte. Paderborn, 2023
Inhalt
- Summary
- Zusammenfassung
- Introduction
- The Transition from Strong-Field Homodyne Detection to Weak-Field Homodyne Detection
- Integrating a Homodyne Detector
- Development of Integrated Components in Lithium Niobate
- Waveguiding in Lithium Niobate
- Background
- Fabrication with Direct Laser Lithography
- Fabrication of Titanium In-Diffused Waveguides
- Fabrication of Passive Components
- Nonlinear Processes in Lithium Niobate
- Nonlinear Material Polarization
- Second Harmonic Generation and its Phase Matching in Lithium Niobate
- Fabrication of Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate
- Nonlinear Characterization of Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate
- Electro-Optical Modulation
- Integrating Single-Photon Detectors on Lithium Niobate
- Basics of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors
- Mode Manipulation in Ti:LN with Silicon Tapers
- Realizing Micron-wide SNSPDs on Silicon
- Fabrication of Micron-wide SNSPDs with Direct Laser Lithography
- Experimental Testing of Micron-Wide SNSPDs
- Micron-wide SNSPDs on z-cut Lithium Niobate
- Integrated Homodyne Detection with SNSPDs
- A Brief Introduction to Homodyne Detection
- Presenting the Concept Behind the Homodyning Experiment
- Experimental Characterization of Homodyne Detection with SNSPDs
- Conclusion and Outlook
- Bibliography
- Appendix