Fiber-coupled nanowire photon counter at 1550 nm with 24% system detection efficiency
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Hu, Xiaolong
Zhong, Tian
White, James E.
Dauler, Eric A.
Najafi, Faraz
Herder, Charles Henry
Wong, Franco N. C.
Berggren, Karl K.
Date Issued
November 2009
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Optics Letters
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Optical Society of America
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Xiaolong Hu, Tian Zhong, James E. White, Eric A. Dauler, Faraz Najafi, Charles H. Herder, Franco N. C. Wong, and Karl K. Berggren, "Fiber-coupled nanowire photon counter at 1550 nm with 24% system detection efficiency," Opt. Lett. 34, 3607-3609 (2009) © 2009 Optical Society of America
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Abstract
We developed a fiber-coupled superconducting nanowire single-photon detector system in a close-cycled cryocooler and achieved 24% and 22% system detection efficiencies at wavelengths of 1550 and 1315 nm, respectively. The maximum dark count rate was ~1000 counts/s.
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Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.34.003607
