Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector With Efficiency Over 60% for 2-μm-Wavelength

IEEE Photonics Journal

Hui Zhou¹  Hao Li¹  Xiaoyu Liu¹  Zhen Wang¹  Yiming Pan¹  Yong Wang¹  Yan Tang¹  Heqing Wang¹  Lixing You¹ 

[1] State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China;

关键词: Photon detectors;    superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs);    system detection efficiency;    2-μm-wavelength.;   

DOI  :  10.1109/JPHOT.2019.2956755

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We demonstrate superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD) for the wavelength at around 2 μm. The linewidth of the NbN nanowire is squeezed to 56 nm to increase the intrinsic response efficiencies at longer wavelengths such as 2 μm. Serially connecting avalanche architecture is applied to increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the response signal. Further, the optical cavity is optimized to improve the absorption of the device. A silica single-mode fiber is adopted to introduce photons to the SNSPD at a temperature of 2.25 K using a Gifford-McMahon cryocooler. The SNSPD exhibits detection efficiencies of 58%, 67%, and 63% at wavelengths of 1550, 1700, and 2000 nm, respectively, with dark count rate of ~12 kcps, which is reduced to 2 cps when the attached fiber pigtail is all placed inside the 40-K cryostat. The detection efficiency at 2000 nm is 2.5 times greater than that of the best previously developed detector with an efficiency of 25%. Our SNSPD is promising for practical applications in molecular science and earth meteorology.

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