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UV-sensitive superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for integration in an ion trap

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Daniel H. Slichter, Varun B. Verma, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, David J. Wineland

Abstract

We demonstrate superconducting nanowire single photon detectors with 76 +/- 4% system detection efficiency at a wavelength of 315 nm and an operating temperature of 3.2 K, with a background count rate below 1 count per second at saturated detection efficiency. We propose integrating these detectors into planar surface electrode radio-frequency Paul traps for use in trapped ion quantum information processing. We operate detectors integrated into test ion trap structures at 3.8 K both with and without typical radio-frequency trapping electric fields. The trapping fields reduce system detection efficiency by less than 10%, and do not increase background count rates.
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Optics Express
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Keywords

Ion trap, Quantum detectors, Quantum computing, Quantum information, Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors
Physics and Quantum information science

Citation

Slichter, D. , Verma, V. , Leibfried, D. , Mirin, R. , Nam, S. and Wineland, D. (2017), UV-sensitive superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for integration in an ion trap, Optics Express, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=922275 (Accessed October 9, 2025)

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Created April 17, 2017, Updated September 26, 2017
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