Using surface plasmons to enhance the speed and efficiency of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
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Author(s)
Hu, Xiaolong
Dauler, Eric A.
Kerman, Andrew J.
Yang, Joel K. W.
White, James E.
Herder, Charles Henry
Berggren, Karl K.
Date Issued
August 2009
Journal
Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Xiaolong Hu et al. “Using surface plasmons to enhance the speed and efficiency of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors.” Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on. 2009. 1-2. ©2009 IEEE
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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.
MIT Department
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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