High-speed and high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single photon detector array

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1440-1447

  Rosenberg, D ^a   Kerman, A J ^a   Molnar, R J ^a   Dauler, E A ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; COMMERCE; EFFICIENCY; NANOWIRES; PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

1550 NM; COUNT RATES; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FIBER-COUPLED SYSTEMS; HIGH SPEED; HIGH-COUNT RATE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; LOW NOISE; PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFF; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLUTION; RECOVERY TIME; SINGLE PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

DETECTORS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; TRANSDUCERS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874047714     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001440     Document Type: Article

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