Superconducting single-photon detectors for GHz-rate free-space quantum communications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4821, Issue , 2002, Pages 447-454

  Verevkin, A ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Slysz, W ^a,c   Sobolewski, Roman ^a,d   Lipatov, A ^a,b   Okunev, O ^b   Chulkova, G ^b   Korneev, A ^b   Gol'tsman, G N ^a,b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Quantum cryptography; Single photon detector; Thin film superconductivity; Ultrafast communications

Indexed keywords

JITTER; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

FREE SPACE QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL DELAY SETUP; READ OUT ELECTRONICS; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE PHOTO DETECTORS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0036995748     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.453542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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