Titanium-based transition-edge photon number resolving detector with 98% detection efficiency with index-matched small-gap fiber coupling

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 870-875

  Fukuda, Daiji ^a   Fujii, Go ^a,b   Numata, Takayuki ^a   Amemiya, Kuniaki ^a   Yoshizawa, Akio ^a   Tsuchida, Hidemi ^a   Fujino, Hidetoshi ^a   Ishii, Hiroyuki ^a   Itatani, Taro ^a   Inoue, Shuichiro ^b   Zama, Tatsuya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; SENSORS; TITANIUM;

AT-WAVELENGTH; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; FIBER COUPLINGS; HEAT CAPACITIES; IN-FIBER; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL CAVITIES; OPTICAL INTERFERENCE; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLUTION; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLVING DETECTOR; SENSITIVE AREA; SIGNAL RESPONSE; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION EDGE SENSORS; TITANIUM-BASED; TRANSITION-EDGE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

FIBERS;

TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; TITANIUM; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 78751540005     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000870     Document Type: Article

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