High performance fiber-coupled NbTiN superconducting nanowire single photon detectors with Gifford-McMahon cryocooler

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 10208-10214

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; COOLING; NANOWIRES; SILICON OXIDES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TIMING JITTER;

CRYOCOOLER SYSTEM; CRYOCOOLERS; DARK COUNT RATE; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; NIOBIUM TITANIUM NITRIDES; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS; THERMALLY OXIDIZED SILICON;

CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLD TEMPERATURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOWIRES; PHOTOMETRY;

EID: 84877144575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.010208     Document Type: Article

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