Low-filling-factor superconducting single photon detector with high system detection efficiency
Taro Yamashita, Shigehito Miki, Hirotaka Terai +1 more
We designed, fabricated, and measured superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SSPDs) with low filling factor which achieve high system detection efficiency (SDE) and counting rate simultaneously. Numerical simulation reveals that high optical absorptance is possible in SSPDs even for low filing factor by tuning the device design. The SDEs of fabricated 18-50% filling factor SSPDs were measured systematically, and all SSPDs showed high SDEs of 61-80% and the lowest 18% filling factor SSPD achieved a high SDE of 69%.
arXiv:1305.2672•Optics Express•Nov 1, 2013•101 citations