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David O. Caplan
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 84
Citations - 1638
David O. Caplan is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Optical communication & Free-space optical communication. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 82 publications receiving 1547 citations.
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781 Mbit/s photon-counting optical communications using a superconducting nanowire detector
Bryan S. Robinson,Andrew J. Kerman,Eric A. Dauler,Richard J. Barron,David O. Caplan,Mark L. Stevens,J. J. Carney,Scott A. Hamilton,Joel K. W. Yang,Karl K. Berggren +9 more
TL;DR: This work demonstrates 1550 nm photon-counting optical communications with a NbN-nanowire superconducting single-photon detector with error-free performance and the highest reported data rate for a photon- Counting receiver.
Book ChapterDOI
Laser communication transmitter and receiver design
TL;DR: The combination of excess bandwidth and average-power-limited optical transmitters has led to a new paradigm in transmitter and receiver design that can extend optimized performance of a single receiver to accommodate multiple data rates.
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Design of an Optical Photon Counting Array Receiver System for Deep-Space Communications
Jeffrey A. Mendenhall,Lawrence M. Candell,P.I. Hopman,G. Zogbi,D. M. Boroson,David O. Caplan,Constantine J. Digenis,David R. Hearn,Ryan Shoup +8 more
TL;DR: This design of a distributed photon-counting receiver array composed of four meter-class telescopes, developed as a part of the mars laser communications demonstration (MLCD) project, offers a cost-effective and adaptable alternative approach to traditional large, single-aperture receive elements while preserving the expected improvement in data rates enabled by free-space laser communications systems.
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Demonstration of 2.5-Gslot/s optically-preamplified M-PPM with 4 photons/bit receiver sensitivity
TL;DR: In this paper, a variable duty-cycle M-ary pulse-position modulation (M-PPM) with coding is investigated experimentally using a simple, multi-rate nearly quantum-limited receiver with throughputs ranging from 1.25 Gbit/s, in the binary case, to 78 M bit/s for M=256.
Patent
Reconfigurable polarization independent interferometers and methods of stabilization
TL;DR: In this article, a polarization independent interferometer (PI-DPSK) is proposed for optical CDMA, secure communications, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and temporal gratings with ultra-precise timing.