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Photonic Technologies for Quantum Information Processing

October 2, 2004
Author(s)
Prem Kumar, P G. Kwiat, Alan L. Migdall, Sae Woo Nam, Jelena Vuckovic, F Wong
The last several years have seen tremendous research toward practical optical quantum information processing, including single- and entangled-photon sources and high-efficiency photon counting detectors, covering a range of wavelengths. We review some of

Johnson Noise Thermometry Using a Quantum Voltage Noise Source for Calibration

June 1, 2004
Author(s)
Sae Woo Nam, Samuel P. Benz, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Weston L. Tew, D. R. White, John M. Martinis
We describe our progress towards a high-precision measurement of temperature using Johnson noise. Using a Quantized Voltage Noise Source (QVNS) based on the Josephson effect as a calibrated noise source, we have been able to measure the gallium and water

Low temperature optical photon detectors for quantum information applications

March 11, 2004
Author(s)
Sae Woo Nam, Aaron J. Miller, Danna Rosenberg
There is increasing interest in using high-performance cryogenic optical photon detectors in a variety of applications in quantum information science and technology. These applications require detectors that have extremely low dark count rates, high count

A Time-Domain SQUID multiplexer for readout of x-ray microcalorimeter arrays

January 1, 2004
Author(s)
W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Jonathan Beall, Joern Beyer, Steven Deiker, S. L. Ferreira, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, John M. Martinis, Sae Woo Nam, Carl D. Reintsema, Joel Ullom, Leila R. Vale
SQUID multiplexers are being developed at NIST for the readout of large arrays of transition-edge-sensor (TES) detectors. Applications for these arrays include x-ray materials analysis on a scanning-electron microscope and astronomical cameras for x-ray

Development and Characterization of a TES Optical Imaging Array for Astrophysics Applications

December 20, 2003
Author(s)
J. Burney, T. Bay, P. Brink, B. Cabrera, J. P. Castle, R. W. Romani, A. Tomada, Sae Woo Nam, Aaron J. Miller, John M. Martinis, E. Wang, T. Kenny, B. A. Young
Our research group has successfully developed photon detectors capable of both time-stamping and energy-resolving individual photons at very high rates in a wide band from near IR through optical and into near UV. We have currently fabricated 32-pixel

Near Unity Absorption in Tungsten films

December 19, 2003
Author(s)
Danna Rosenberg, Sae Woo Nam, Aaron J. Miller, Arto Salminen, Erich N. Grossman, Robert E. Schwall, John M. Martinis
The number resolving ability and extremely low dark count rate of tungsten transition-edge sensors (TESs) make them excellent candidates to replace avalanche photo diodes (APDs) in quantum information experiments, including quantum key distribution and

Direct observation of photon pairs at a single output port of a beam-splitter interferometer

December 16, 2003
Author(s)
Matthew Shaw, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, A. Sergeinko, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Malvin C. Teich, Aaron J. Miller, Sae Woo Nam
The seminal experiment carried out by Hong, Ou, and Mandel some fifteen years ago is one of the most important in the annals of quantum optics. This experiment demonstrated that two indistinguishable photons incident on a simple beam splitter interfere in

Prototype system for superconducting quantum interference device multiplexing of large-format transition-edge sensor arrays

September 25, 2003
Author(s)
Carl D. Reintsema, Joern Beyer, Sae Woo Nam, Steven Deiker, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Joel N. Ullom, Leila R. Vale, Michael MacIntosh
We discuss the implementation of a time-division SQUID multiplexing system for the instrumentation of large-format transition-edge sensors (TES) arrays. We cover design and integration issues concerning cryogenic SQUID multiplexers and amplifiers, signal

Time-Division Superconducting Quantum Interference Device Multiplexer for Transition-Edge Sensors

August 1, 2003
Author(s)
Piet DeKorte, Joern Beyer, Steven Deiker, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Michael MacIntosh, Sae Woo Nam, Carl D. Reintsema, Leila R. Vale, Martin Huber
We report on the design and performance of our second-generation 32-channel time-division multiplexer developed for the read-out of large-format arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensors. We present design issues and measurement results on its gain

A Time-Domain SQUID Multiplexer System for Read-Out of Superconducting Transition-Edge-Sensor Arrays

July 7, 2003
Author(s)
Carl D. Reintsema, James A. Beall, Steven Deiker, W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Sae Woo Nam, Leila R. Vale, Joel Ullom, Yizi Xu, Joern Beyer, Martin Huber
The development of time-domain SQUID multiplexers enables the integration of superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) into arrays of thousands of elements while maintaining a manageable number of readout channels. The applications for detector arrays

Banishing Quasiparticles From Josephson-Junction Qubits: Why and How To Do It

June 1, 2003
Author(s)
Kristine Lang, Sae Woo Nam, Joe Aumentado, John M. Martinis, C Urbina
Current-biased Josephson junctions are prime candidates for the implementation of quantum bits; however, a present limitation is their coherence time. In this paper we qualitatively describe the role of quasiparticles in decoherence. We discuss two methods

Electronics for Arrays of Transition Edge Sensors using Digital Signal Processing

June 1, 2003
Author(s)
Sae Woo Nam, Joern Beyer, Gene C. Hilton, Kent D. Irwin, Carl D. Reintsema, John M. Martinis
Single-pixel transition-edge sensors (TES) are useful for a variety of applications requiring the detection of photons from sub-millimeter wavelengths to gamma rays. Arrays of TESs are required in the next-generation instruments to continue to be useful