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Search Publications by: Richard Mirin (Fed)

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Extending single-photon optimized superconducting transition edge sensors beyond the single-photon counting regime

October 2, 2012
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Adriana E. Lita, Alan L. Migdall, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Typically, transition edge sensors resolve photon number of up to 10 or 20 photons, depending on the wavelength and TES design. We extend that dynamic range up to 1000 photons, while maintaining sub- shot noise detection process uncertainty of the number

Extending single-photon optimized superconducting transition edge sensors beyond the single-photon counting regime

October 2, 2012
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Adriana E. Lita, Alan L. Migdall, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin
Photon number resolving transition-edge sensors (TES) are the cutting-edge enabling technology for high quantum efficiency photon counting when the number of photons of an input state needs to be determined. The TES developed at NIST reliably show system

On-chip, photon-number-resolving, telecom-band detectors for scalable photonic information processing

July 30, 2012
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Nick Thomas-Peter, James Gates, Adriana E. Lita, Benjamin Metcalf, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Anna E. Fox, Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Justin Spring, Nathan Langford, Richard P. Mirin, Peter Smith, Ian Walmsley, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate the operation of an integrated photon number resolving transition edge sensor (TES), operating in the telecom band at 1550 nm, employing an evanescently coupled design that allows the detector to be placed at arbitrary locations within a

Transition edge sensors with low jitter and fast recovery times

July 30, 2012
Author(s)
Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Nathan A. Tomlin, Brice R. Calkins, Adriana E. Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Joern Beyer, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Superconducting transition edge sensors (TES) for single photon detection have been shown to have almost perfect quantum efficiency (98%) at a wide range of wavelengths. Their high quantum efficiency combined with their ability to intrisically measure the

Exotic behavior in quantum dot mode-locked lasers: dark pulses and bistability

May 24, 2012
Author(s)
Kevin L. Silverman, Mingming M. Feng, Richard P. Mirin, Steven T. Cundiff
Passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers with self-assembled quantum dot active regions can be operated in exotic output modes, stabilized by the complex gain and absorption dynamics inherent in these structures. One such device emits dark pulses - sharp

Extending single-photon optimized superconducting transition edge sensors beyond the single-photon counting regime

May 6, 2012
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Adriana E. Lita, Alan L. Migdall, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We illuminate a photon-number-resolving transition edge sensor with strong pulses of light containing up to 6.7 million photons (0.85 pJ per pulse). These bright pulses heat the sensor far beyond its transition edge into the normal resistance regime. We

On-chip, photon-number-resolving, telecom-band detectors for scalable photonic information processing

May 6, 2012
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Nick Thomas-Peter, James Gates, Adriana E. Lita, Benjamin Metcalf, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Anna E. Fox, Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Justin Spring, Nathan Langford, Richard P. Mirin, Peter Smith, Ian Walmsley, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate an integrated photon-number resolving detector, operating in the telecom band at 1550 nm, employing an evanescently coupled design that allows the detector to be placed at arbitrary locations within a planar optical circuit. Up to 5 photons

Single-photon and photon-number-resolving detectors

April 20, 2012
Author(s)
Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Mark Itzler
Several important advances were reported in single-photon detectors and photon-number-resolving detectors in 2011. New materials with smaller superconducting gaps were demonstrated for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) that led to

On-chip, photon-number-resolving, telecommunication-band detectors for scalable photonic information processing

December 5, 2011
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Nick Thomas-Peter, James Gates, Adriana E. Lita, Benjamin Metcalf, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Anna E. Fox, Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Justin Spring, Nathan Langford, Richard P. Mirin, Peter Smith, Ian Walmsley, Sae Woo Nam
Integration is currently the only feasible route towards scalable photonic quantum processing devices which are sufficiently complex to be genuinely useful in computing, metrology, and simulation. Embedded on-chip detection will be critical to such devices

Generation and characterization of high-purity, pulsed squeezed light at telecom wavelengths from pp-KTP

November 15, 2011
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Martin J. Stevens, Burm Baek, Brice R. Calkins, Adriana E. Lita, Scott C. Glancy, Emanuel H. Knill, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin, Robert Hadfield, Ryan Bennink, Warren Grice, Sander N. Dorenbos, Tony Zijlstra, Teun Klapwijk, Val Zwiller
We characterize a pp-KTP crystal designed to produce pure single mode squeezed vacuum at 1570 nm. Measurements show a raw (corrected) Hong-Ou-Mandel interference with 86 % (90 %) visibility and a circular joint spectral probability distribution with a

Extending single-photon optimized superconducting transition edge sensors beyond the single-photon counting regime

September 19, 2011
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Adriana E. Lita, Alan L. Migdall, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin
Photon number resolving transition-edge sensors (TES) are the cutting-edge enabling technology for high quantum efficiency photon number counting. The TES developed at NIST reliably show system detection efficiencies of more than 95%, and even approach 99%

Time-resolved photoluminescence of lithographically defined quantum dots fabricated by electron beam lithography and wet chemical etching

June 15, 2011
Author(s)
Varun B. Verma, Martin J. Stevens, Kevin L. Silverman, Neville Dias, Akash Garg, James J. Coleman, Richard P. Mirin
We measure the time-resolved photoluminescence characteristics of a novel type of lithographically patterned quantum dot fabricated by electron beam lithography, wet chemical etching, and overgrowth of the barrier layers by metalorganic chemical vapor