• DocumentCode
    3642222
  • Title

    Cavity-enhanced nanowire superconducting single photon detectors on GaAs

  • Author

    A. Gaggero;S. Jahanmiri Nejad;F. Marsili;F. Mattioli;R. Leoni;D. Bitauld;D. Şahin;G. H. Hamhuis;R. Nötzel;R Sanjines;A. Fiore

  • Author_Institution
    Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, CNR, Via Cineto Romano 42, 00156 Roma, Italy
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report on efficient nanowire NbN superconducting single photon detectors (SSPDs), integrated with an optical cavity based GaAs/AlAs distributed Bragg reflectors, showing a detection efficiency of 18.3% at 4.2K at 1.3 μm wavelength.
  • Keywords
    "Distributed Bragg reflectors","Photonics","Gallium arsenide","Detectors","Reflectivity","Optical reflection","Substrates"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951409