Title :
Broadband, polarization-insensitive superconducting single-photon detectors based on waveguide-integrated ultra-narrow nanowires
Author :
Xiaotian Zhu; Chao Gu; Yuhao Cheng; Xiaolong
Author_Institution :
School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronic Engineering, Tianjin University, 300072, China
fDate :
6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We report on our design and simulation of superconducting single-photon detectors, based on ultra-narrow nanowire (30 nm) integrated with waveguides, to achieve broadband (wavelength: 1.2 micrometer to 1.7 micrometer) absorptance >0.99 for two orthogonal polarizations.
Keywords :
"Optical waveguides","Photonics","Integrated optics","Optical films","Optical polarization","Optical refraction","Optical sensors"
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8892
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2015.7340156
