Gigahertz counting rates of NbN single-photon detectors for quantum communications

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART I, 2005, Pages 579-582

  Pearlman, A ^a   Cross, A ^a   Stysz, W ^a,b   Zhang, J ^a,c   Verevkin, A ^a   Currie, M ^d   Korneev, A ^e   Kouminov, P ^e   Smirnov, K ^e   Voronov, B ^e   Gol'tsman, G ^e   Sobolewski, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Counting rate; Fiber coupling; Optical single photon detectors; Quantum communications; Quantum cryptography; Quantum efficiency; Telecommunications receiver; Timing jitter

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TIMING JITTER;

COUNTING RATE; FIBER-COUPLING; OPTICAL SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS RECEIVER;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 22044433707     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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