Demonstration of a low-noise near-infrared photon counter with multiphoton discrimination

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 791-793

  Miller, Aaron J ^a   Nam, Sae Woo ^a   Martinis, John M ^a   Sergienko, Alexander V ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTIPHOTON ABSORPTION;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0041511833     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1596723     Document Type: Article

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