Electrothermal feedback in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
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Andrew J. Kerman,1 Joel K. W. Yang,2 Richard J. Molnar,1 Eric A. Dauler,1,2 and Karl K. Berggren2 1Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts 02420, USA 2Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Received 5 December 2008; revised manuscript received 30 January 2009; published 26 March 2009
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