HEMT-based readout technique for dark- and photon-count studies in NbN superconducting single-photon detectors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 346-349

  Kitaygorsky, Jennifer ^a,b   Dorenbos, Sander ^c   Reiger, Elisabeth ^c   Schouten, Raymond ^c   Zwiller, Val ^c,d   Sobolewski, Roman ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Electromagnetic Applications   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark counts; Photon spectral resolution; Photon number resolution; Superconducting nanowires; Superconducting single photon detectors

Indexed keywords

ANTIVORTEX; DARK COUNTS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FORMATION MECHANISM; HOT SPOT; INPUT IMPEDANCE; LOW NOISE; NANOSTRIPES; OUTPUT PULSE; PHASE-SLIP CENTERS; PHOTON COUNT; PHOTON COUNTING; PULSE AMPLITUDE; SINGLE PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRES; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; TRANSIENT VOLTAGE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; VOLTAGE TRANSIENTS;

DETECTORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC WIRE; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; NANOWIRES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSIENTS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 68649085871     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2018191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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