Superconducting series nanowire detector counting up to twelve photons

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 3475-3489

  Zhou, Zili ^a   Jahanmirinejad, Saeedeh ^a   Mattioli, Francesco ^b   Sahin, Döndü ^a   Frucci, Giulia ^a   Gaggero, Alessandro ^b   Leoni, Roberto ^b   Fiore, Andrea ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b IFN CNR   (Italy)

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EID: 84893932181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.003475     Document Type: Article

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