Abstract
We implemented a photon-counting optical receiver using a periodically-poled lithium niobate waveguide and an emulated array of silicon Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes. We achieved a sensitivity of < 0.5 detected photons/bit at 187.5 Mb/s.
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