TY  - CONF
AU  - Xu, Y.
AU  - Zheng, X.
AU  - Williams, C.
AU  - Verevkin, A.
AU  - Sobolewski, R.
AU  - Chulkova, G.
AU  - Lipatov, A.
AU  - Okunev, O.
AU  - Smirnov, K.
AU  - Gol’tsman, G. N.
A2  - Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. Postconference Technical Digest (IEEE Cat. No.01CH37170)
PY  - 2001
DA  - 2001//
TI  - Ultrafast superconducting hot-electron single-photon detector
T2  - CLEO
BT  - CLEO
SP  - 345
KW  - NbN SSPD
KW  - SNSPD
AB  - Summary form only given. The current most-pressing need is to develop a practical, GHz-range counting single-photon detector, operational at either 1.3-/spl mu/m or 1.55-/spl mu/m radiation wavelength, for novel quantum communication and quantum cryptography systems. The presented solution of the problem is to use an ultrafast hot-electron photodetector, based on superconducting thin-film microstructures. This type of device is very promising, due to the macroscopic quantum nature of superconductors. Very fast response time and the small, (meV range) value of the superconducting energy gap characterize the superconductor, leading to the efficient avalanche process even for infrared photons.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO.2001.947894
DO  - 10.1109/CLEO.2001.947894
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ID  - Xu_etal2001
ER  -