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Author Hu, Xiaolong; Zhong, Tian; White, James E.; Dauler, Eric A. Najafi, Faraz; Herder, Charles H.; Wong, Franco N. C.; Berggren, Karl K.
Title Fiber-coupled nanowire photon counter at 1550 nm with 24% system detection efficiency Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Optics Letters Abbreviated Journal (up) Opt. Lett.
Volume 34 Issue 23 Pages 3607-3609
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Abstract We developed a fiber-coupled superconducting nanowire single-photon detector system in a close-cycled cryocooler and achieved 24% and 22% system detection efficiencies at wavelengths of 1550 and 1315 nm, respectively. The maximum dark count rate was ~1000 counts/s.
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Call Number RPLAB @ gujma @ Serial 679
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Author Kern, Pierre; Le Coärer, Etienne; Benech, Pierre
Title On-chip spectro-detection for fully integrated coherent beam combiners Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Optics Express Abbreviated Journal (up) Opt.Express
Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 1976-1987
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Abstract This paper presents how photonics associated with new arising detection technologies is able to provide fully integrated instrument for coherent beam combination applied to astrophysical interferometry. The feasibility and operation of on-chip coherent beam combiners has been already demonstrated using various interferometric combination schemes. More recently we proposed a new detection principle aimed at directly sampling and extracting the spectral information of an input signal together with its flux level measurement. The so-called SWIFTS demonstrated concept that stands for Stationary-Wave Integrated Fourier Transform Spectrometer, provides full spectral and spatial information recorded simultaneously thanks to a motionless detecting device. Due to some newly available detection principles considered for the implementation of the SWIFTS concept, some technologies can even provide photo-counting operation that brought a significant extension of the interferometry domain of investigation in astrophysics. The proposed concept is applicable to most of the interferometric instrumental modes including fringe tracking, fast and sensitive detection, Fourier spectral reconstruction and also to manage a large number of incoming beams. The paper presents three practical implementations, two dealing with pair-wise integrated optics beam combinations and the third one with an all-in-one 8 beam combination. In all cases the principles turned into a pair wise baseline coding after proper data processing.
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Call Number RPLAB @ gujma @ Serial 650
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Author Kerman, Andrew J.; Yang, Joel K. W.; Molnar, Richard J.; Dauler, Eric A.; Berggren, Karl K.
Title Electrothermal feedback in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Phys. Rev. B Abbreviated Journal (up) Phys. Rev. B
Volume 79 Issue 10 Pages 4
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Abstract We investigate the role of electrothermal feedback in the operation of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). It is found that the desired mode of operation for SNSPDs is only achieved if this feedback is unstable, which happens naturally through the slow electrical response associated with their relatively large kinetic inductance. If this response is sped up in an effort to increase the device count rate, the electrothermal feedback becomes stable and results in an effect known as latching, where the device is locked in a resistive state and can no longer detect photons. We present a set of experiments which elucidate this effect and a simple model which quantitatively explains the results.
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Call Number RPLAB @ gujma @ Serial 680
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Author Minaeva, Olga; Bonato, Cristian; Saleh, Bahaa E. A.; Simon, David S.; Sergienko, Alexander V.
Title Odd- and even-order dispersion cancellation in quantum interferometry Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Phys. Rev. Lett. Abbreviated Journal (up) Phys. Rev. Lett.
Volume 102 Issue 10 Pages 4
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Abstract We describe a novel effect involving odd-order dispersion cancellation. We demonstrate that odd- and even-order dispersion cancellation may be obtained in different regions of a single quantum interferogram using frequency-anticorrelated entangled photons and a new type of quantum interferometer. This offers new opportunities for quantum communication and metrology in dispersive media.
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Call Number RPLAB @ gujma @ Serial 699
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Author Gol'tsman, B. M.; Kutasov, V. A.; Luk'yanova, L. N.
Title Mechanism of formation of texture and its influence on the strength of thermoelectric p-Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Physics of the Solid State Abbreviated Journal (up) Phys. Sol. St.
Volume 51 Issue 4 Pages 747-749
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Abstract It is established that, in preparing p-Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 by vertical zone melting, in addition to the directional texture (characteristic of materials exhibiting a highly anisotropic growth rate) in which the cleavage planes of crystal grains are parallel to the direction of propagation of the crystallization front, other texture types can arise, in which the orientation of grain cleavage planes is ordered in a cross-sectional plane of the ingot. Two types of such textures, “radial” and “circular,” were observed. In a radial texture, the lines of intersection of grain cleavage planes with a cross-sectional plane of the ingot are oriented along radii of this cross section and, in a circular texture, these lines of intersection are oriented approximately perpendicular to a radius crossing the grain. The formation of a radial texture is associated with rotation of the ampoule with the crystallizing substance about its vertical axis causing centrifugal flows of the melt. The formation of a circular texture is associated with the orientation effect of the ampoule walls and with circular motion of the melt during torsional oscillations of the ampoule about the vertical axis. Ingots with a radial texture exhibit much lower resistance to splitting along their axis than ingots with a circular texture do. An explanation is provided for this fact.
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Call Number RPLAB @ gujma @ Serial 726
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