Title :
Superconducting nanowire photon number resolving detector at telecom wavelength
Author :
Marsili, Francesco ; Bitauld, David ; Divochiy, Aleksander ; Gaggero, Alessandro ; Leoni, Roberto ; Mattioli, Francesco ; Korneev, Alexander ; Seleznev, Vitaliy ; Kaurova, Nataliya ; Minaeva, Olga ; Gol´tsman, Gregory ; Lagoudakis, Konstantinos G. ; Benka
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photonics & Quantum Electron., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Lausanne
Abstract :
We demonstrate a photon-number-resolving (PNR) detector, based on parallel superconducting nanowires, capable of resolving up to 5 photons in the telecommunication wavelength range, with sensitivity and speed far exceeding existing approaches.
Keywords :
nanowires; niobium compounds; optical communication equipment; photodetectors; photon counting; superconducting thin films; NbN-MgO; parallel superconducting nanowires; photon-number-resolving detector; superconducting single photon detector; telecommunication wavelength range; Detectors; Telecommunications; (040.3060) Infrared; (040.3780) Low light level;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
