TY  - STD
AU  - Verevkin, A.
AU  - Williams, C.
AU  - Gol’tsman, G. N.
AU  - Sobolewski, R.
AU  - Gilbert, G.
AU  - Optical Fiber Communication Conference and International Conference on Quantum Information
PY  - 2001
DA  - 2001//
TI  - Single-photon superconducting detectors for practical high-speed quantum cryptography
PB  - Optical Society of America
KW  - NbN SSPD
KW  - SNSPD
KW  - QKD
KW  - quantum cryptography
AB  - We have developed an ultrafast superconducting single-photon detector with negligible dark counting rate. The detector is based on an ultrathin, submicron-wide NbN meander-type stripe and can detect individual photons in the visible to near-infrared wavelength range at a rate of at least 10 Gb/s. The above counting rate allows us to implement the NbN device to unconditionally secret quantum key distRochester, New Yorkribution in a practical, high-speed system using real-time Vernam enciphering.
UR  - http://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ICQI-2001-PA3
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1364/Icqi.2001.Pa3
DO  - 10.1364/Icqi.2001.Pa3
N1  - -- from poster session.
ID  - Verevkin_etal2001
ER  -