Using surface plasmons to enhance the speed and efficiency of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hu, Xiaolong (Contributor), Dauler, Eric A. (Contributor), Kerman, Andrew J. (Contributor), Yang, Joel K. W. (Contributor), White, James E. (Contributor), Herder, Charles Henry (Contributor), Berggren, Karl K. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2010-10-15T18:55:11Z.
Subjects:
Online Access:Get fulltext
LEADER 01832 am a22003613u 4500
001 59385
042 |a dc 
100 1 0 |a Hu, Xiaolong  |e author 
100 1 0 |a Lincoln Laboratory  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Berggren, Karl K.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Hu, Xiaolong  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Dauler, Eric A.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Kerman, Andrew J.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Yang, Joel K. W.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a White, James E.  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Herder, Charles Henry  |e contributor 
100 1 0 |a Berggren, Karl K.  |e contributor 
700 1 0 |a Dauler, Eric A.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Kerman, Andrew J.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Yang, Joel K. W.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a White, James E.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Herder, Charles Henry  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Berggren, Karl K.  |e author 
245 0 0 |a Using surface plasmons to enhance the speed and efficiency of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors 
260 |b Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,   |c 2010-10-15T18:55:11Z. 
856 |z Get fulltext  |u http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59385 
520 |a 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. 
520 |a United States. Dept. of the Air Force (FA8721-05-C-0002) 
546 |a en_US 
655 7 |a Article 
773 |t Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference