Verma, V.
, Korzh, B.
, Bussieres, F.
, Horansky, R.
, Dyer, S.
, Lita, A.
, Vayshenker, I.
, Marsili, F.
, Shaw, M.
, Zbinden, H.
, Mirin, R.
and Nam, S.
(2015),
High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated from MoSi thin-films, Optics Express, [online], https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.033792
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High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated from MoSi thin-films
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, Boris Korzh, Felix Bussieres, , , , , Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Hugo Zbinden, ,
Abstract
We report on MoSi SNSPDs which achieved high system detection efficiency (87.1 ± 0.5% at 1542 nm) at 0.7 K and we demonstrate that these detectors can also be operated with saturated internal efficiency at a temperature of 2.3 K in a Gifford-McMahon cryocooler. We measured a minimum system jitter of 76 ps, maximum count rate approaching 10 MHz, and polarization dependence as low as 3.3 ± 0.1%. The performance of MoSi SNSPDs at 2.3 K is similar to the performance of WSi SNSPDs atCitation
Optics Express
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23
Issue
26
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nanowire, superconductor, single photon, detector
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