Supercontinuum single-photon detector using multilayer superconducting nanowires

Hao Li; Yong Wang; Lixing You; Heqing Wang; Hui Zhou; Peng Hu; Weijun Zhang; Xiaoyu Liu; Xiaoyan Yang; Lu Zhang; Zhen Wang; Xiaoming Xie

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.001425

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 12, 1425(2019)

Supercontinuum single-photon detector using multilayer superconducting nanowires

Hao Li1...2,†, Yong Wang1,2,†, Lixing You1,2,3,*, Heqing Wang1,2, Hui Zhou1,3, Peng Hu1,2,3, Weijun Zhang1,2, Xiaoyu Liu1,2, Xiaoyan Yang1,2, Lu Zhang1,2, Zhen Wang1,2, and Xiaoming Xie12 |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai 200050, China

²CAS Center for Excellence in Superconducting Electronics, Shanghai 200050, China

³Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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