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Publications (20)

physics.ins-det2017

Fano fluctuations in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

A. G. Kozorezov, C. Lambert, F. Marsili +6

Because of their universal nature, Fano fluctuations are expected to influence the response of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). We predict that photon cou…

cond-mat.supr-con2015

Hotspot Relaxation Dynamics in a Current Carrying Superconductor

F. Marsili, M. J. Stevens, A. Kozorezov +11

We experimentally studied the dynamics of optically excited hotspots in current carrying WSi superconducting nanowires as a function of bias current, bath temperature and excitatio…

cond-mat.supr-con2014

High-efficiency WSi superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors operating at 2.5 K

V. B. Verma, B. Korzh, F. Bussières +7

We investigate the operation of WSi superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) at 2.5 K, a temperature which is ~ 70 % of the superconducting transition temperature…

quant-ph2016

High-efficiency WSi superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for quantum state engineering in the near infrared

H. Le Jeannic, V. B. Verma, A. Cavaillès +6

We report on high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors based on amorphous WSi and optimized at 1064 nm. At an operating temperature of 1.8 K, we demonstrated…

quant-ph2015

Optical synthesis of large-amplitude squeezed coherent-state superpositions with minimal resources

K. Huang, H. Le Jeannic, J. Ruaudel +10

We propose and experimentally realize a novel versatile protocol that allows the quantum state engineering of heralded optical coherent-state superpositions. This scheme relies on…

physics.ins-det2008

Superconducting parallel nanowire detector with photon number resolving functionality

F. Marsili, D. Bitauld, A. Fiore +9

We present a new photon number resolving detector (PNR), the Parallel Nanowire Detector (PND), which uses spatial multiplexing on a subwavelength scale to provide a single electric…