Stable, high-performance operation of a fiber-coupled superconducting nanowire avalanche photon detector

S Miki, M Yabuno, T Yamashita, H Terai - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Optics express, 2017opg.optica.org
Recent progress in the development of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors
(SSPD or SNSPD) has delivered excellent performance, and has had a great impact on a
range of research fields. Significant efforts are being made to further improve the technology,
and a primary concern remains to resolve the trade-offs between detection efficiency (DE),
timing jitter, and response speed. We present a stable and high-performance fiber-coupled
niobium titanium nitride superconducting nanowire avalanche photon detector (SNAP) that …
Recent progress in the development of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SSPD or SNSPD) has delivered excellent performance, and has had a great impact on a range of research fields. Significant efforts are being made to further improve the technology, and a primary concern remains to resolve the trade-offs between detection efficiency (DE), timing jitter, and response speed. We present a stable and high-performance fiber-coupled niobium titanium nitride superconducting nanowire avalanche photon detector (SNAP) that resolves these trade-offs. Autocorrelation function measurement revealed an afterpulse-free operation in serially connected two SNAP (SC-2SNAP), even in the absence of a choke inductor, achieving a 7.65 times faster response speed than standard SSPDs. The SC-2SNAP device showed a system detection efficiency (SDE) of 81.0% with wide bias current margin, a dark count rate of 6.8 counts/s, and full width at half maximum timing jitter of 68 ps, operating in a practical Gifford–McMahon cryocooler system.
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