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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Recent advances in superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for single-photon imaging

Varun Boehm Verma, Michael S. Allman, Martin J. Stevens, Thomas Gerrits, Robert D. Horansky, Adriana E. Lita, Francesco Marsili, Andrew D. Beyer, Matthew D. Shaw, J. A. Stern, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

Published May 5, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a 64-pixel free-space-coupled array of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors optimized for high detection efficiency in the near-infrared range. An integrated, readily scalable, multiplexed readout scheme is employed to reduce the number of readout lines to 16. The cryogenic, optical, and electronic packaging to read out the array, as well as characterization measurements are discussed.

DOI
10.1117/12.2225241

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