Counting Photons Using a Nanonetwork of Superconducting Wires

Andrea Fiore; Francesco Marsili; David Bitauld; Alessandro Gaggero; Roberto Leoni; Francesco Mattioli; Aleksander Divochiy; Alexander Korneev; Vitaliy Seleznev; Nataliya Kaurova; Olga Minaeva; Gregory Gol’tsman

Nano-Net. Third International ICST Conference, NanoNet 2008, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

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Counting Photons Using a Nanonetwork of Superconducting Wires

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    author={Andrea Fiore and Francesco Marsili and David Bitauld and Alessandro Gaggero and Roberto Leoni and Francesco Mattioli and Aleksander Divochiy and Alexander Korneev and Vitaliy Seleznev and Nataliya Kaurova and Olga Minaeva and Gregory Gol’tsman},
    title={Counting Photons Using a Nanonetwork of Superconducting Wires},
    proceedings={Nano-Net. Third International ICST Conference, NanoNet 2008, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={NANO-NET},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
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    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-02427-6_20}
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Andrea Fiore
Francesco Marsili
David Bitauld
Alessandro Gaggero
Roberto Leoni
Francesco Mattioli
Aleksander Divochiy
Alexander Korneev
Vitaliy Seleznev
Nataliya Kaurova
Olga Minaeva
Gregory Gol’tsman
Year: 2012
Counting Photons Using a Nanonetwork of Superconducting Wires
NANO-NET
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02427-6_20

Andrea Fiore¹^,*, Francesco Marsili, David Bitauld¹, Alessandro Gaggero², Roberto Leoni², Francesco Mattioli², Aleksander Divochiy³, Alexander Korneev³, Vitaliy Seleznev³, Nataliya Kaurova³, Olga Minaeva³, Gregory Gol’tsman³

1: Eindhoven University of Technology
2: CNR
3: Moscow State Pedagogical University (MSPU)

*Contact email: a.fiore@tue.nl

Abstract

We show how the parallel connection of photo-sensitive supercon-ducting nanowires can be used to count the number of photons in an optical pulse, down to the single-photon level. Using this principle we demonstrate photon-number resolving detectors with unprecedented sensitivity and speed at telecommunication wavelengths.

Published: 2012-05-09

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02427-6_20