Modified detector tomography technique applied to a superconducting multiphoton nanodetector

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2806-2813

  Renema, J J ^a   Frucci, G ^b   Zhou, Z ^b   Mattioli, F ^c   Gaggero, A ^c   Leoni, R ^c   De Dood, M J A ^a   Fiore, A ^b   Van Exter, M P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c IFN CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; NANOWIRES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; MULTIPHOTONS; NBN NANOWIRE; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; QUANTUM INFORMATION; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

DETECTORS;

NIOBIUM;

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

CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NIOBIUM; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84863042318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002806     Document Type: Article

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