Superconducting nanowire photon- number-resolving detector at telecommunication wavelengths
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Department of Physics, Moscow State Pedagogical University (MSPU), 119992 Moscow, Russian Federation Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPEQ), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 3, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN), CNR, via Cineto Romano 42, 00156 Rome, Italy Institute of Complex Matter Physics (IPMC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 3, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland *e-mail: [email protected] Present address: COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, NL-5600MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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