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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Using Surface Plasmons to Enhance the Speed and Efficiency of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

Xiaolong Hu, Eric A. Dauler, Andrew J. Kerman, Joel K. W. Yang, James E. White, Charles H. Herder, Karl K. Berggren

Published Jan 1, 2009• 3 citations
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Abstract

We report our design and fabrication of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors integrated with gold plasmonic nanostructures, which can enhance the absorption of TM-polarized light, and can enlarge the effective area without sacrificing detector speed.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2009.itum2

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