Proposal for a superconducting photon number resolving detector with large dynamic range

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5017-5028

  Jahanmirinejad, Saeedeh ^a   Fiore, Andrea ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; NANOWIRES; RESISTORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH INPUT IMPEDANCE; INTEGRATED RESISTORS; PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; PHOTON DETECTION; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLVING DETECTOR; SERIES CONNECTIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; VOLTAGE PULSE;

PHOTONS;

NANOTUBE;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TRANSDUCER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84857587826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005017     Document Type: Article

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