@Article{Divochiy_etal2008,
author="Divochiy, Aleksander
and Marsili, Francesco
and Bitauld, David
and Gaggero, Alessandro
and Leoni, Roberto
and Mattioli, Francesco
and Korneev, Alexander
and Seleznev, Vitaliy
and Kaurova, Nataliya
and Minaeva, Olga
and Gol{\textquoteright}tsman, Gregory
and Lagoudakis, Konstantinos G.
and Benkhaoul, Moushab
and L{\'e}vy, Francis
and Fiore, Andrea",
title="Superconducting nanowire photon-number-resolving detector at telecommunication wavelengths",
journal="Nat. Photon.",
year="2008",
volume="2",
number="5",
pages="302--306",
optkeywords="SSPD; photon-number-resolving",
abstract="Optical-to-electrical conversion, which is the basis of the operation of optical detectors, can be linear or nonlinear. When high sensitivities are needed, single-photon detectors are used, which operate in a strongly nonlinear mode, their response being independent of the number of detected photons. However, photon-number-resolving detectors are needed, particularly in quantum optics, where n-photon states are routinely produced. In quantum communication and quantum information processing, the photon-number-resolving functionality is key to many protocols, such as the implementation of quantum repeaters1 and linear-optics quantum computing2. A linear detector with single-photon sensitivity can also be used for measuring a temporal waveform at extremely low light levels, such as in long-distance optical communications, fluorescence spectroscopy and optical time-domain reflectometry. We demonstrate here a photon-number-resolving detector based on parallel superconducting nanowires and capable of counting up to four photons at telecommunication wavelengths, with an ultralow dark count rate and high counting frequency.",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=916), last updated on Sat, 01 May 2021 01:13:28 -0500",
doi="10.1038/nphoton.2008.51",
opturl="http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v2/n5/full/nphoton.2008.51.html",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.51"
}