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Author Takesue, Hiroki; Nam, Sae Woo; Zhang, Qiang; Hadfield, Robert H.; Honjo, Toshimori; Tamaki, Kiyoshi; Yamamoto, Yoshihisa
Title Quantum key distribution over a 40-dB channel loss using superconducting single-photon detectors Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2007 Publication Nature Photonics Abbreviated Journal Nat. Photon.
Volume 1 Issue Pages 343-348
Keywords quantum cryptography, SSPD, QKD, DSP
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Call Number RPLAB @ akorneev @ Serial 609
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Author Williams, Benjamin S.
Title Terahertz quantum-cascade lasers Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2007 Publication Nature Photonics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 1 Issue Pages 517-525
Keywords QCL review
Abstract Six years after their birth, terahertz quantum-cascade lasers can now deliver milliwatts or more of continuous-wave coherent radiation throughout the terahertz range — the spectral regime between millimetre and infrared wavelengths, which has long resisted development. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art and future prospects for these lasers, including efforts to increase their operating temperatures, deliver higher output powers and emit longer wavelengths.
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Author Kawano, Yukio; Ishibashi, Koji
Title An on-chip near-field terahertz probe and detector Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2008 Publication Nature Photonics Abbreviated Journal Nature Photon
Volume 2 Issue 10 Pages 618-621
Keywords single molecule, terahertz, THz, near-field, microscopy, imaging, 2DEG, GaAs/AlGaAs, detector, applications
Abstract The advantageous properties of terahertz waves, such as their transmission through objects opaque to visible light, are attracting attention for imaging applications. A promising approach for achieving high spatial resolution is the use of near-field imaging. Although this method has been well established in the visible and microwave regions, it is challenging to perform in the terahertz region. In the terahertz techniques investigated to date, detectors have been located remotely from the probe, which degrades sensitivity, and the influence of far-field waves is unavoidable. Here we present a new integrated detection device for terahertz near-field imaging in which all the necessary detection components — an aperture, a probe and a terahertz detector — are integrated on one semiconductor chip, which is cryogenically cooled. This scheme allows highly sensitive, high-resolution detection of the evanescent field alone and promises new capabilities for high-resolution terahertz imaging.
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Author Tang, Liang; Kocabas, Sukru Ekin; Latif, Salman; Okyay, Ali K.; Ly-Gagnon, Dany-Sebastien; Saraswat, Krishna C.; Miller, David A. B.
Title Nanometre-scale germanium photodetector enhanced by a near-infrared dipole antenna Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2008 Publication Nature Photonics Abbreviated Journal
Volume 2 Issue Pages 226-229
Keywords optical antennas
Abstract A critical challenge for the convergence of optics and electronics is that the micrometre scale of optics is significantly larger than the nanometre scale of modern electronic devices. In the conversion from photons to electrons by photodetectors, this size incompatibility often leads to substantial penalties in power dissipation, area, latency and noise. A photodetector can be made smaller by using a subwavelength active region; however, this can result in very low responsivity because of the diffraction limit of the light. Here we exploit the idea of a half-wave Hertz dipole antenna (length approx 380 nm) from radio waves, but at near-infrared wavelengths (length approx 1.3 microm), to concentrate radiation into a nanometre-scale germanium photodetector. This gives a polarization contrast of a factor of 20 in the resulting photocurrent in the subwavelength germanium element, which has an active volume of 0.00072 microm3, a size that is two orders of magnitude smaller than previously demonstrated detectors at such wavelengths.
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Author Hadfield, Robert H.
Title Single-photon detectors for optical quantum information applications Type Journal Article
Year (up) 2009 Publication Nature Photonics Abbreviated Journal Nature Photonics
Volume 3 Issue Pages 696-705
Keywords SPD
Abstract The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in interest in new single-photon detector technologies. A major cause of this trend has undoubtedly been the push towards optical quantum information applications such as quantum key distribution. These new applications place extreme demands on detector performance that go beyond the capabilities of established single-photon detectors. There has been considerable effort to improve conventional photon-counting detectors and to transform new device concepts into workable technologies for optical quantum information applications. This Review aims to highlight the significant recent progress made in improving single-photon detector technologies, and the impact that these developments will have on quantum optics and quantum information science.
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