Physical modeling of hot-electron superconducting single-photon detectors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 3789-3794

  Yan, Zhizhong ^a,b   Majedi, A Hamed ^a,b   Safavi Naeini, Safieddin ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; Electromagnetic (EM) propagation; Photonics; Quantum optics; Superconducting devices; Superconducting optoelectronics; Superconducting radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

KINETIC INDUCTANCE VARIATION; SUPERCONDUCTING OPTOELECTRONICS; SUPERCONDUCTING RADIATION DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING THIN-FILMS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 34548528678     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2007.906001     Document Type: Article

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