Picosecond superconducting single-photon optical detector

By G. Goltsman, O. Okunev, G. Chulkova, A. Lipatov, A. D. Semenov, K. Smirnov, B. Voronov, A. Dzardanov, C. Williams, R. Sobolewski. 2001

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Instrumentation

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Citations in the corpus

• Practical challenges in quantum key distribution (2016, neutral): “…is closely linked to the development of new single-photon detection technologies such as superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), 24 superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES), 25 frequency up-conversion single photon dete-ctors, 26,27 and self-differencing InGaAs avalanche…”
• Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: physics and applications (2012, methodology): “SNSPD is to immerse it in liquid helium (He) [7] or to mount”
• Single-photon generation and detection (2009, background): “width of the wire to be detected [185].”
• Waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (2018, background): “Since their first realization in 2001 [30], SNSPDs have been developed into one of the most promising technologies for broadband optical detection of single photons.”
• Photonic quantum information processing: A concise review (2019, background): “Things started to turn for the better with the advent of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors 46,47 (SNSPDs).”
• Multi-Element Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector (2007, positive): “Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs; also referred to as SSPDs [1]) are composed of a thin, narrow superconducting wire that is biased slightly below its critical current.”
• Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for quantum information (2020, methodology): “An SNSPD has high detection efficiency, low dark count rate, high speed, and low timing jitter [13].”
• Design and performance of an InGaAs-InP single-photon avalanche diode detector (2006, background): “t (QD) field effect transistors [8] and QD resonant tunnelling diodes [9] which have shown promising results in terms of SPDE at wavelengths around 684 nm [10]. Superconducting singlephoton detectors [11] have demonstrated a SPDE of approximately 5% at a wavelength of 1.55 m when cooled to a tempera”