Efficient single photon detection from 500 nm to 5 μm wavelength

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4799-4804

  Marsili, Francesco ^a   Bellei, Francesco ^a   Najafi, Faraz ^a   Dane, Andrew E ^a   Dauler, Eric A ^b   Molnar, Richard J ^b   Berggren, Karl K ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

mid infrared; nanofabrication; niobium nitride (NbN); quantum optics; Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors; superconductivity

Indexed keywords

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; MIDINFRARED; NIOBIUM NITRIDE; OPTICAL CAVITIES; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; EFFICIENCY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; NIOBIUM; NITRIDES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; WAVELENGTH;

DETECTORS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

CONDUCTOMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS;

EID: 84866309762     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl302245n     Document Type: Article

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