Fiber-coupled single-photon detectors based on NbN superconducting nanostructures for practical quantum cryptography and photon-correlation studies

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 26, 2006, Pages

  Slysz W ^a   Wegrzecki M ^a   Bar, J ^a   Grabiec, P ^a   Gorska M ^a   Zwiller, V ^b,e   Latta, C ^b   Bohi, P ^b   Milostnaya, I ^c   Minaeva, O ^c   Antipov, A ^c   Okunev, O ^c   Korneev, A ^c   Smirnov, K ^c   Voronov, B ^c   Kaurova, N ^c   Gol'tsman, G ^c   Pearlman, A ^d   Cross, A ^d   Komissarov, I ^d   Verevkin, A ^d,f   Sobolewski, Roman ^d   more..

^a ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d University of Rochester   (United States)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

FIBER-TO-DETECTOR COUPLING FACTOR; LIQUID-HELIUM DEWAR; PHOTON-CORRELATION;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 33745633908     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2218105     Document Type: Article

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