• DocumentCode
    3699720
  • Title

    Broadband, polarization-insensitive superconducting single-photon detectors based on waveguide-integrated ultra-narrow nanowires

  • Author

    Xiaotian Zhu; Chao Gu; Yuhao Cheng; Xiaolong

  • Author_Institution
    School of Precision Instrument and Opto-electronic Engineering, Tianjin University, 300072, China
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We report on our design and simulation of superconducting single-photon detectors, based on ultra-narrow nanowire (30 nm) integrated with waveguides, to achieve broadband (wavelength: 1.2 micrometer to 1.7 micrometer) absorptance >0.99 for two orthogonal polarizations.
  • Keywords
    "Optical waveguides","Photonics","Integrated optics","Optical films","Optical polarization","Optical refraction","Optical sensors"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2166-8892
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2015.7340156
  • Filename
    7340156