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.
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