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Waveguide integrated superconducting single-photon detectors
- Source :
- 2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON).
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- IEEE, 2016.
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Abstract
- Near-field coupling to nanophotonic waveguides enables absorption engineering of superconducting nanowires for efficient single photon detection on chip. The direct compatibility with photonic circuitry allows for using such devices in the framework of integrated optics and thus for exploiting the rich toolbox of nanophotonics for device characterization and optimization. We integrate superconducting single photon detectors with photonic circuitry made from different transparent materials. Both single and multi-photon capability can be achieved through variation of the nanowire width, as well as ultra-fast single photon counting with high detection rates by reducing the nanowire length.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Superconductivity
Materials science
business.industry
Photon detector
Detector
Nanophotonics
Nanowire
Physics::Optics
01 natural sciences
Waveguide (optics)
Photon counting
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
Optics
0103 physical sciences
Optoelectronics
Photonics
010306 general physics
business
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- 2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9edeb20d74ab262d2d2d87965edc593a