Fiber-coupled nanowire photon counter at 1550 nm with 24% system detection efficiency

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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Main Authors: Hu, Xiaolong (Contributor), Zhong, Tian (Contributor), White, James E. (Contributor), Dauler, Eric A. (Contributor), Najafi, Faraz (Contributor), Herder, Charles Henry (Contributor), Wong, Franco N. C. (Contributor), Berggren, Karl K. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Optical Society of America, 2010-12-09T14:54:43Z.
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