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Detecting Single Infrared Photons with 93 % System Efficiency

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Francesco F. Marsili, Varun B. Verma, Jeffrey A. Stern, Sean D. Harrington, Adriana E. Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Igor Vayshenker, Burm Baek, Matthew D. Shaw, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

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Single-photon detectors (SPDs) are nonlinear transducers that respond to the absorption of one or more photons with an electrical signal1. SPDs at near infrared wavelengths with high system detection efficiency (> 90%), low dark count rate (
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Marsili, F. , Verma, V. , Stern, J. , Harrington, S. , Lita, A. , Gerrits, T. , Vayshenker, I. , Baek, B. , Shaw, M. , Mirin, R. and Nam, S. (2013), Detecting Single Infrared Photons with 93 % System Efficiency, Nature, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=911769 (Accessed April 19, 2024)

Created February 25, 2013, Updated February 19, 2017