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Author (up) Uzawa, Y.; Miki, S.; Wang, Z.; Kawakami, A.; Kroug, M.; Yagoubov, P.; Kollberg, E.
Title Performance of a quasi-optical NbN hot-electron bolometric mixer at terahertz frequencies Type Journal Article
Year 2002 Publication Superconductor Science and Technology Abbreviated Journal Supercond. Sci. Technol.
Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 141-145
Keywords HEB, mixer
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Call Number RPLAB @ s @ Serial 548
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Author (up) Wang, Zhen; Miki, S.; Fujiwara, M.
Title Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for quantum information and communications Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron. Abbreviated Journal
Volume 15 Issue 6 Pages 1741-1747
Keywords SSPD
Abstract Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs or SSPD) are highly promising devices in the growing field of quantum information and communications technology. We have developed a practical SSPD system with our superconducting thin films and devices fabrication, optical coupling packaging, and cryogenic technology. The SSPD system consists of six-channel SSPD devices and a compact Gifford-McMahon (GM) cryocooler, and can operate continuously on 100 V ac power without the need for any cryogens. The SSPD devices were fabricated from high-quality niobium nitride (NbN) ultrathin films that were epitaxially grown on single-crystal MgO substrates. The packaged SSPD devices were temperature stabilized to 2.96 K ± 10 mK. The system detection efficiency for an SSPD device with an area of 20 × 20 ¿m2 was found to be 2.6% and 4.5% at wavelengths of 1550 and 1310 nm, respectively, at a dark count rate of 100 Hz, and a jitter of 100 ps full-width at half maximum. We also performed ultrafast BB84 quantum key distribution (QKD) field testing and entanglement-based QKD experiments using these SSPD devices.
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Call Number RPLAB @ gujma @ Serial 676
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