Superconducting nanowire detector jitter limited by detector geometry

Superconducting-nanowire single-photon-detector linear array

Superconducting Nanowire Single photon detector (SNSPD) for Quantum Information

In the beginning of this century, a new type of detector, superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD or SSPD) joined the family of superconducting sensors and detectors. Soon, it has been turning to be one of the most important players in this family since it surpasses the semiconducting single photon detectors (APD: avalanche photodiode and PMT: photo multiplier tube) with many adv...

Superconducting nanowire photon- number-resolving detector at telecommunication wavelengths

Department of Physics, Moscow State Pedagogical University (MSPU), 119992 Moscow, Russian Federation Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPEQ), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 3, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN), CNR, via Cineto Romano 42, 00156 Rome, Italy Institute of Complex Matter Physics (IPMC), Ecole Polytechniq...

Quantum detector tomography of a time-multiplexed superconducting nanowire single-photon detector at telecom wavelengths.

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are widely used in telecom wavelength optical quantum information science applications. Quantum detector tomography allows the positive-operator-valued measure (POVM) of a single-photon detector to be determined. We use an all-fiber telecom wavelength detector tomography test bed to measure detector characteristics with respect to photon...

Dark counts of superconducting nanowire single-photon detector under illumination.

An abnormal increase in the SDE was observed for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) when the bias current (I(b)) was close to the switching current (I(sw)). By introducing the time-correlated single-photon counting technique, we investigated the temporal histogram of the detection counts of an SNSPD under illumination. The temporal information helps us to distinguish phot...