Demonstration of digital readout circuit for superconducting nanowire single photon detector

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18593-18601

  Ortlepp, T ^a   Hofherr, M ^b   Fritzsch, L ^c   Engert, S ^d   Ilin, K ^b   Rall, D ^b   Toepfer, H ^d   Meyer, H G ^c   Siegel, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DETECTORS; ELECTRIC WIRE; LOGIC CIRCUITS; NANOWIRES; PARTICLE BEAMS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

CRYOGENIC CONDITIONS; DESIGN AND TESTS; DIGITAL READOUTS; ELECTRICAL PULSE; FABRICATION PROCESS; INTERFACE CIRCUITS; INTERFACE SOLUTION; LOW-POWER DISSIPATION; MICROWATTS; MULTI-CHIP; MULTI-PIXEL; OPERATION SPEED; READ-OUT CIRCUIT; SEMICONDUCTOR AMPLIFIERS; SFQ CIRCUIT; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; WIRE BONDS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 80052748457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018593     Document Type: Article

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