Detection of infrared photons with a superconductor

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2150-2153

  Zhang, Labao ^a   Zhong, Yangyin ^a   Kang, Lin ^a   Chen, Jian ^a   Ji, Zhengming ^a   Xu, Weiwei ^a   Cao, Chunhai ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Detector; Infrared; Quantum communication; Single photon; Superconductor

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649993637     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0351-8     Document Type: Article

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