NbN superconducting single-photon detectors prepared on single-crystal MgO substrates

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 285-288

  Miki, Shigehito ^a   Fujiwara, Mikio ^a   Sasaki, Masahide ^a   Wang, Zhen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

NbN superconducting films; Quantum info communication devices; Single photon detectors; Superconducting devices

Indexed keywords

EPITAXIAL FILMS; HELIUM; MAGNESIA; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

QUANTUM INFO-COMMUNICATION DEVICES; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS; UNPROCESSED FILMS;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 34547463156     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2007.898582     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. G. Ribordy, J. D. Gautier, N. Gisin, O. Guinnard, and H. Zbinden, "Fast and user-friendly quantum key distribution," J. Mod. Opt., vol. 47, pp. 517-531, 2000.
2. G. Ribordy, J. Brendel, J. D. Gautier, N. Gisin, and H. Zbinden, "Long-distance entanglement-based quantum key distribution," Phys. Rev. A, vol. 63, p. 012309, 2000.
3. I. Marcikic, H. de Riedmatten, W. Tittel, H. Zbinden, and N. Gisin, "Long distance teleportation of qubits at telecommunication wavelengths," Nature, vol. 421, pp. 509-513, 2003.
4. A. Tomita and K. Nakamura, "Balanced, gated-mode photon detector for quantum-bit discrimination at 1550 nm," Opt. Lett., vol. 27, pp. 1827-1829, 2002.
5. D. Rosenberg, A. E. Lita, A. J. Miller, and S. W. Nam, "Noise-free high-efficiency photon-number-resolving detectors," Phys. Rev. A., vol. 71, p. 061803, 2005.
6. G. Gol'tsman, O. Okunev, G. Chulkova, A. Lipatov, A. Semenov, K. Smirnov, B. Voronov, A. Dzardanov, C. Williams, and R. Sobolewski, "Picosecond superconducting single photon detector," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 79, pp. 705-707, 2001.
7. K. M. Rosfjord, J. K. W. Yang, E. A. Dauler, A. J. Kerman, V. Anant, B. M. Boronov, G. N. Gol'tsman, and K. K. Berggren, "Nanowire single photon detector with an integrated optical cavity and anti-reflection coating," Optics Express, vol. 14, pp. 527-534, 2006.
8. A. Pearlman, A. Cross, W. Slysz, J. Zhang, A. Verevkin, M. Currie, A. Korneev, P. Kouminov, K. Smirnov, B. Voronov, G. Gol'tsman, and R. Sobolewski, "Gigahertz counting rates of NbN single photon detectors for quantum communications," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 15, pp. 579-582, 2005.
9. G. Gol'tsman, O. Okunev, G. Chulkova, A. Lipatov, A. Dzardanov, K. Smirnov, A. Semenov, B. Voronov, C. Williams, and R. Sobolewski, "Fabrication and properties of an ultrafast NbN hot-electron single photon detector," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 11, pp. 574-577, 2001.
10. A. Korneev, V. Matvienko, O. Minaeva, I. Milostnaya, I. Rubtsova, G. Chulkova, K. Smirnov, V. Voronov, G. Gol'tsman, W. Slysz, A. Pearlman, A. Verevkin, and R. Sobolewski, "Quantum efficiency and noise equivalent power of nanostructured, NbN, single-photon detectors in the wavelength from the visible to infrared," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 15, pp. 571-574, 2005.
11. B. Delaet, J. Villegier, W. Escoffier, J. Thomassion, P. Feautrier, I. Wang, P. Renaud-Goud, and J. Poizat, "Fabrication and characterization of ultrathin NbN hot electron bolometer for near infrared single photon detection," Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. Phys. Res. Sect. A, vol. 520, pp. 541-543, 2004.
12. A. Kawakami, Z. Wang, and S. Miki, "Low-loss epitaxial NbN/MgO/NbN trilayers for THz applications," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 11, pp. 80-83, 2001.
13. P. Yagoubov, G. Gol'tsman, B. Voronov, L. Seidman, V. Siomash, S. Cherednichenko, and E. Gershenzon, "The bandwidth of HEB mixers employing ultrathin NbN films on sapphire substrate," in Proc. of the 7th Int. Symp. on Space Terahertz Tech., 1996, pp. 290-302.
14. S. Miki, Y. Uzawa, A. Kawakami, and Z. Wang, "Fabrication and IF bandwidth measurement of NbN hot-electron bolometers," Electron. & Commun. in Japan, vol. 85, pp. 77-80, 2002.
15. H. Kataoka, A. Kawakami, Y. Uzawa, Z. Wang, and N. Kaya, "Fabrication of NbN-HEB mixers with fluoride radical etching process," IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., vol. 15, pp. 469-471, 2005.