Detection of infrared photons with a superconductor

Zhang, Labao; Zhong, Yan; Kang, Lin; Chen, Jian; Ji, Zheng; Xu, Wei; Cao, Chunhong

doi:10.1007/s11434-009-0351-8

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“…For measuring the SDE, a 1550-nm wavelength pulsed laser with a 100-fs pulse width was used as an input photon source and it was attenuated heavily so that the photon flux illuminating the device was 2.5 × 10 5 photons/s, which was sufficiently low to keep the linearity of the output counts for the incident photon flux as we did before. [16,21,22] A fiber polarization controller was also used to control the polarization properties of the incident photons to maximize the SDE. When measuring the spectral characteristics, a continuously tunable system consisting of a xenon lamp (wavelength ranging from 200 nm to 2500 nm) and a monochromator was used to supply illumination light of different wavelengths to the device.…”

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High efficiency, large-active-area superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Gu¹,

Zhang²,

Kang³

et al. 2015

Chinese Phys. B

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Niobium nitride superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors were fabricated on thermally oxidized silicon substrates with large active areas of 30 μm × 30 μm. To achieve non-constricted detectors, we improved the film growth and electron beam lithography process to fabricate uniform 100-nm wide NbN nanowires with a fill factor of 50%. The devices showed 72.4% system detection efficiency (SDE) at 100-Hz dark count rate (DCR) and 74-ps timing jitter, measured at the fiber communication wavelength of 1550 nm. The highest SDE which is 81.2% when the DCR is ∼700 c/s appears at the wavelength of 1650 nm.

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Section: Measurement and Results Discussionmentioning

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High efficiency, large-active-area superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Gu¹,

Zhang²,

Kang³

et al. 2015

Chinese Phys. B

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“…In this experiment, the system efficiency was measured using measurement settings similar to those in the study [26]. In this SNSPD system, we achieved a maximal efficiency of 55 % with a DCR of approximately 10 counts per second.…”

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Dual-lens beam compression for optical coupling in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Zhang

Wan

et al. 2015

Science Bulletin

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“…After the remaining part is irradiated for the n time period, the total radiation dose is G 1 +G 2 +G 3 +… +G n = 0.5IE∆t 1 …”

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“…Currently, the research in this area is rather active both at home and abroad [1][2][3][4] . When the same particle is ripped into the same solid target and the dose of particle into the target is not very high, an incident particle will have a nuclear track which corresponds to a certain degree of energy deposition; there is a certain relationship between the total damage energy of deposition in the target and the number of nuclear tracks in the target.…”

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Measurement of solid state nuclear tracks in apatite by thermal analysis method

He¹,

Yang

et al. 2009

Chin. Sci. Bull.

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A new measurement method of thermal analysis for solid state nuclear tracks is proposed. The annealing heat emitted by the unit mass of solid state nuclear tracks in heavy particles of the sample is determined via micro-thermal analysis method. Hence, the number of solid state nuclear tracks in the unit mass of sample is determined. In particular, this paper introduces the method and its significance to measure the number of α-particles nuclear tracks in apatite by measuring the annealing heat of α-particles nuclear tracks. In addition, the mechanism of the measurement and potential applications are discussed. solid state nuclear tracks probe, thermal analysis, annealing heat, apatiteOne of the most important ways to promote progress in science and technology is to constantly explore new measurement means. Currently, the research in this area is rather active both at home and abroad [1][2][3][4] . When the same particle is ripped into the same solid target and the dose of particle into the target is not very high, an incident particle will have a nuclear track which corresponds to a certain degree of energy deposition; there is a certain relationship between the total damage energy of deposition in the target and the number of nuclear tracks in the target. There should also be a certain relationship between the annealing heat emitted from the deposition energy of target and the number of nuclear tracks of the target. The number of unit mass of solid state nuclear tracks can be determined by measuring the annealing heat emitted from unit mass of solid. We proposed that the method of thermal analysis to detect solid state nuclear tracks is feasible [5] . Based on this idea, the number of α-particles solid state nuclear tracks of unit mass of apatite sample is determined.The sample to be tested for solid state nuclear tracks at different time period is irradiated with the same known irradiation source. The irradiation dose G of the irradiated sample at each time period is calculated and the annealing heat Q of unit mass of irradiated sample at each time period is determined. In right-angle coordinate system, the curve between irradiation dose G and the annealing heat Q is made. The slope a (the proportion of the annealing heat to the total irradiation dose) of straight line by fittings and the intercept b (corresponding to the inherent annealing heat Q 0 of the sample to be tested) is obtained respectively, and then the irradiation dose (G 0 =b/a=Q 0 /a) and solid nuclear track density ρ 0 (ρ 0 =G 0 /E) of the sample can be calculated. As the sample is in the same target which is irradiated by the particles with the same type and energy, the determined value is the number of nuclear track of unit mass of the sample before irradiated by the known irradiation source. Whether the sample is suitable for straight-line fitting and the quality of the linear relationship is judged by fitting coefficient.

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Detection of infrared photons with a superconductor

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

High efficiency, large-active-area superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

High efficiency, large-active-area superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Dual-lens beam compression for optical coupling in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Measurement of solid state nuclear tracks in apatite by thermal analysis method

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