Operating quantum waveguide circuits with superconducting single-photon detectors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Natarajan, C M ^a   Peruzzo, A ^b   Miki, S ^c   Sasaki, M ^c   Wang, Z ^c   Baek, B ^d   Nam, S ^d   Hadfield, R H ^a   O'Brien, J L ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED-NOT GATES; DARK COUNTS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; PICOSECOND TIMING; QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE; QUANTUM METROLOGY; QUANTUM WAVE GUIDES; SILICA-ON-SILICON; SINGLE PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; TELECOM; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

DETECTORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SILICA; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON DETECTORS;

EID: 77956247122     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3413948     Document Type: Article

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