Low-jitter single flux quantum signal readout from superconducting single photon detector

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 20115-20123

  Terai, Hirotaka ^a   Yamashita, Taro ^a   Miki, Shigehito ^a   Makise, Kazumasa ^a   Wang, Zhen ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; PARTICLE BEAMS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

CIRCUIT PARAMETER; INPUT CURRENT; INPUT PULSE; MEASUREMENT SETUP; READ-OUT CIRCUIT; SIGNAL READOUTS; SINGLE FLUX QUANTUM; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS;

JITTER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84865721628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020115     Document Type: Article

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