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Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 6, 1294(2024)

High-resolution mid-infrared single-photon upconversion ranging

Shuhong Jiang¹, Kun Huang^1,2,3、*, Tingting Yu¹, Jianan Fang¹, Ben Sun¹, Yan Liang⁴, Qiang Hao⁴, E. Wu^1,2, Ming Yan^1,2, and Heping Zeng^1,2,5,6,7

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²Chongqing Key Laboratory of Precision Optics, Chongqing Institute of East China Normal University, Chongqing 401121, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

⁴School of Optical Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

⁵Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

⁶Guangyang Bay Laboratory, Chongqing Institute for Brain and Intelligence, Chongqing 400064, China

⁷e-mail: hpzeng@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Feb. 23, 2024

Accepted: Apr. 6, 2024

Published Online: May. 30, 2024

The Author Email: Kun Huang (khuang@lps.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.522253

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

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