Abstract
We implemented a photon-counting optical receiver at 1550 µm with periodically-poled lithium niobate and a silicon Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode. We measured a sensitivity of 1.9 incident photons/bit at 18.8 Mb/s for a single detector.
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