Sensitivity and gigahertz counting performance of NbN superconducting single-photon detectors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 5338-5340

  Korneev, A ^a   Kouminov, P ^a   Matvienko, V ^a   Chulkova, G ^a   Smirnov, K ^a   Voronov, B ^a   Gol'tsman, G N ^a   Currie, M ^b   Lo, W ^c   Wilsher, K ^c   Zhang, J ^d,e   Sllysz W ^d,f   Pearlman, A ^d   Verevkin, A ^d   Sobolewski, Roman ^d,g  

^a MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NPTest Inc   (United States)

^d University of Rochester   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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

^g INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED (IR) PHOTONS; NOISE-EQUIVALENT POWER (NEP); SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS (SSPD); WAVELENGTH;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INFRARED RADIATION; MONOCHROMATORS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NIOBIUM; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 3242719747     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1764600     Document Type: Article

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