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Smirnov, K., Divochiy, A., Vakhtomin, Y., Morozov, P., Zolotov, P., Antipov, A., et al. (2018). NbN single-photon detectors with saturated dependence of quantum efficiency. Supercond. Sci. Technol., 31(3), 035011 (1 to 8).
Abstract: The possibility of creating NbN superconducting single-photon detectors with saturated dependence of quantum efficiency (QE) versus normalized bias current was investigated. It was shown that the saturation increases for the detectors based on finer films with a lower value of Rs300/Rs20. The decreasing of Rs300/Rs20 was related to the increasing influence of quantum corrections to conductivity of superconductors and, in turn, to the decrease of the electron diffusion coefficient. The best samples have a constant value of system QE 94% at Ib/Ic ~ 0.8 and wavelength 1310 nm.
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Słysz, W., Węgrzecki, M., Bar, J., Grabiec, P., Gol'tsman, G. N., Verevkin, A., et al. (2005). NbN superconducting single-photon detector coupled with a communication fiber. Elektronika : konstrukcje, technologie, zastosowania, 46(6), 51–52.
Abstract: We present novel superconducting single-photon detectors (SSPDs), based on ultrathin NbN films, designed for fiber-based quantum communications (lambda = 1.3 žm and 1.55 žm). For fiber-based operation, our SSPDs contain a special micromechanical construction integrated with the NbN structure, which enables efficient and mechanically very stabile fiber coupling. The detectors combine GHz counting rate, high quantum efficiency and very low level of dark counts. At 1.3 – 1.55 žm wavelength range our detector exhibits a quantum efficiency up to 10%.
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Slysz, W., Wegrzecki, M., Bar, J., Grabiec, P., Gol'tsman, G. N., Verevkin, M., et al. (2004). NbN superconducting single-photon detectors coupled with a communication fiber (Vol. 37).
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Somani, S., Kasapi, S., Wilsher, K., Lo, W., Sobolewski, R., & Gol’tsman, G. (2001). New photon detector for device analysis: Superconducting single-photon detector based on a hot electron effect. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 19(6), 2766–2769.
Abstract: A novel superconducting single-photon detector (SSPD), intrinsically capable of high quantum efficiency (up to 20%) over a wide spectral range (ultraviolet to infrared), with low dark counts (<1 cps), and fast (<40 ps) timing resolution, is described. This SSPD has been used to perform timing measurements on complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) by detecting the infrared light emission from switching transistors. Measurements performed from the backside of a 0.13 μm geometry flip–chip IC are presented. Other potential applications for this detector are in telecommunications, quantum cryptography, biofluorescence, and chemical kinetics.
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Zhang, J., Boiadjieva, N., Chulkova, G., Deslandes, H., Gol'tsman, G. N., Korneev, A., et al. (2003). Noninvasive CMOS circuit testing with NbN superconducting single-photon detectors. Electron. Lett., 39(14), 1086–1088.
Abstract: The 3.5 nm thick-film, meander-structured NbN superconducting single-photon detectors have been implemented in the CMOS circuit-testing system based on the detection of near-infrared photon emission from switching transistors and have significantly improved the performance of the system. Photon emissions from both p- and n-MOS transistors have been observed.
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