Response time characterization of NbN superconducting single-photon detectors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 180-183

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

^c Department of Micro and Nanotechnology of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors   (Poland)

^d MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

NbN superconducting films; Quantum communications; Quantum efficiency; Response time; Single photon detector

Indexed keywords

JITTER; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 0041941666     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.813675     Document Type: Conference Paper

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