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Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector RiseTime Analysis

Claire E. Marvinney, Brian Lerner, Matthew A. Feldman, Yun‐Yi Pai, Eugene Dumitrescu, Alexander A. Puretzky, Aaron Miller, Benjamin J. Lawrie

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations

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Abstract

We explore the limits of spatial, spectral, and photon-number resolution in superconducting nanowire single photon detectors by characterizing the rising edge of a readout pulse with a low-noise high-bandwidth readout circuit.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2020.ff3d.4

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