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Waveguide Single-Photon Detectors for Integrated Quantum Photonics

Andrea Fiore, Alessandro Gaggero, J. P. Sprengers, Dondu Sahin, S. Jahanmiri Nejad, David Bitauld, Johannes Beetz, M. Lermer, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, F. Mattioli, Roberto Leoni

Published Jan 1, 2011• 1 citation
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Abstract

We report the first waveguide single-photon detectors. They are based on superconducting nanowires patterned on top of GaAs/AlGaAs waveguides and are suitable for monolithic integration with single-photon sources and passive quantum optical networks.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2011.pdpc3

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