Low-filling-factor superconducting single photon detector with high system detection efficiency

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 27177-27184

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

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

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; PARTICLE BEAMS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

COUNTING RATES; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; DEVICE DESIGN; FILLING FACTOR; LOW FILLINGS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS;

FILLING;

EID: 84887496116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.027177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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