%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Real-time GHz-rate counting of infrared photons using nanostructured NbN superconducting detectors
%A Verevkin, A.
%A Slysz, W.
%A Pearlman, A.
%A Zhang, J.
%A Sobolewski, R.
%A Okunev, O.
%A Korneev, A.
%A Kouminov, P.
%A Smirnov, K.
%A Chulkova, G.
%A Gol’tsman, G. N.
%A Currie, M.
%S CLEO/QELS
%D 2003
%I Optical Society of America
%F Verevkin_etal2003
%O exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=1517), last updated on Thu, 20 May 2021 19:42:33 -0500
%X We demonstrate that our ultrathin, nanometer-width NbN superconducting single-photon detectors are capable of above 1-GHz-frequency, real-time counting of near-infrared photons. The measured system jitter of the detector is below 15 ps.
%K NbN SSPD
%K SNSPD
%K Infrared
%K Quantum detectors
%K Detectors
%K Photon counting
%K Quantum communications
%K Quantum cryptography
%K Single photon detectors
%K Superconductors
%U http://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=CLEO-2003-CThM8
%P CThM8