Ultrafast superconducting single-photon optical detectors and their applications

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 1151-1157

  Sobolewski, Roman ^a,b   Verevkin, A ^a   Gol'tsman, G N ^c   Lipatov, A ^c   Wilsher, K ^d  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d NPTest   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS testing; Nonequilibrium superconductivity; Quantum cryptography; Single photon detectors; Ultrathin NbN films

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; ULTRATHIN FILMS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0042440719     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.814178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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