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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Multi-Channel Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector System with High Detection Efficiency

Taro Yamashita, Shigehito Miki, Mikio Fujiwara, Masahide Sasaki, Zhen Wang

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report a development of a multi-channel superconducting nanowire single photon detector system, which showed the high detection efficiency over 10% at 100 Hz dark count rate and the wavelength of 1550 nm.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2010.jthe28

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