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Waveguide-Integrated Superconducting Nanowire Arrays for Single Photon Detection with Number-Resolution

Jonas Schütte, Martin A. Wolff, Matthias Häußler, Helge Gehring, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Carsten Schuck

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

We fabricated and characterized waveguide-integrated photon number resolving superconducting nanowire single photon detectors with up to 16 detector elements obtaining a high timing resolution of 10.4 ps.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2023.fm2e.3

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