TY  - JOUR
AU  - Divochiy, Aleksander
AU  - Marsili, Francesco
AU  - Bitauld, David
AU  - Gaggero, Alessandro
AU  - Leoni, Roberto
AU  - Mattioli, Francesco
AU  - Korneev, Alexander
AU  - Seleznev, Vitaliy
AU  - Kaurova, Nataliya
AU  - Minaeva, Olga
AU  - Gol'tsman, Gregory
AU  - Lagoudakis, Konstantinos G.
AU  - Benkhaoul, Moushab
AU  - Lévy, Francis
AU  - Fiore, Andrea
PY  - 2008
DA  - 2008//
TI  - Superconducting nanowire photon-number-resolving detector at telecommunication wavelengths
T2  - Nat. Photon.
JO  - Nat. Photon.
SP  - 302
EP  - 306
VL  - 2
IS  - 5
KW  - SSPD
KW  - photon-number-resolving
AB  - 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.
UR  - http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v2/n5/full/nphoton.2008.51.html
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.51
DO  - 10.1038/nphoton.2008.51
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