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; ... Show more
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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.
Date issued
2009-11
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60249
Department
Lincoln Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Journal
Optics Letters
Publisher
Optical Society of America
Citation
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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0146-9592
1539-4794
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