Ultrafast superconducting single-photon detector
- 10 September 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Modern Optics
- Vol. 56 (15) , 1670-1680
Abstract
The state-of-the-art of the NbN nanowire superconducting single-photon detector technology (SSPD) is presented. The SSPDs exhibit excellent performance at 2 K temperature: 30% quantum efficiency from visible to infrared, negligible dark count rate, single-photon sensitivity up to 5.6 µm. The recent achievements in the development of GHz counting rate devices with photon-number resolving capability is presented.Keywords
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