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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors Integrated with Current Reservoirs

Yuhao Cheng, Haiyi Liu, Chao Gu, Xiaotian Zhu, Xiaolong Hu

Published Jan 1, 2017• 4 citations
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Abstract

We integrate superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with wider superconducting wires that behave as current reservoirs to provide gain for signal amplification and increase the slew rate for reducing timing jitter without affecting the detection efficiency.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2017.jw2a.120

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