High performance fiber-coupled NbTiN superconducting nanowire single photon detectors with Gifford-McMahon cryocooler

Opt Express. 2013 Apr 22;21(8):10208-14. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.010208.

Abstract

We present high performance fiber-coupled niobium titanium nitride superconducting nanowire single photon detectors fabricated on thermally oxidized silicon substrates. The best device showed a system detection efficiency (DE) of 74%, dark count rate of 100 c/s, and full width at half maximum timing jitter of 68 ps under a bias current of 18.0 μA with a practical Gifford-McMahon cryocooler system. We also introduced six detectors into the cryocooler and confirmed that the system DE of all detectors was higher than 67% at the dark count rate of 100 c/s.

MeSH terms

  • Cold Temperature
  • Electric Conductivity
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Fiber Optic Technology / instrumentation*
  • Materials Testing
  • Metal Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Metal Nanoparticles / radiation effects*
  • Metal Nanoparticles / ultrastructure
  • Nanowires / chemistry*
  • Nanowires / radiation effects*
  • Nanowires / ultrastructure
  • Photometry / instrumentation*