Superconducting transition-edge sensors optimized for high-efficiency photon-number resolving detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7681, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lita, A E ^a   Calkins, B ^a   Pellouchoud, L A ^a   Miller, A J ^b   Nam, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Photon number resolving; single photon detector; superconducting transition edge detector

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DEVICES; DARK COUNTS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; MICRO-CALORIMETERS; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; NEAR INFRARED; NEW OPTIONS; PHOTON DETECTOR; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLVING; PHOTON NUMBERS; QUANTUM INFORMATION APPLICATIONS; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITIONS; SYSTEM LOSS;

LIGHT; MULTILAYERS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOSENSORS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 77953747581     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.852221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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