Origin of intrinsic dark count in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Yamashita, T ^a   Miki, S ^a   Makise, K ^a   Qiu, W ^a   Terai, H ^a   Fujiwara, M ^a   Sasaki, M ^a   Wang, Z ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DARK COUNT RATE; DARK COUNTS; DECOHERENCE; DIRECT-CURRENT; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; VORTEX-ANTIVORTEX PAIRS;

NANOWIRES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VORTEX FLOW;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 80155154399     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3652908     Document Type: Article

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