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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Timing Jitter of Fractal Superconducting Nanowire Avalanche Photodetectors in the 2-Micrometer Wavelength Range

Liang Xu, Yun Meng, Kai Zou, Nan Hu, Yu Jun Cai, Samuel Gyger, Stephan Steinhauer, Val Zwiller, Xiaolong Hu

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We developed a femtosecond, mode-locked thulium-doped fiber l aser t o characterize fractal superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors at 1993 nm. The lowest timing jitter was 64.8 ps, which should be compared with 29.2 ps at 1560 nm.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2021.jw1a.138

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