TY - JOUR
T1 - Probing Kinetic Inductance Pulses below the Hotspot Activation Threshold of a Superconducting Nanowire
AU - Glasby, Jacob
AU - Faramarzi, Farzad
AU - Sypkens, Sasha
AU - Day, Peter
AU - Berggren, Karl
AU - Mauskopf, Philip
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPDs) have demonstrated timing and efficiency properties that have placed them at the frontier in single photon sensing applications (e.g. photon counting, deep space optical communications, quantum communication, and quantum encryption). Properties such as timing jitter as low as 3 ps, dark counts under 90 counts per day, high detection efficiency (>90\%), short dead time and sensitivity over a wide range of photon energies (UV to IR). SNSPDs have a cutoff energy where the photon does not have enough energy to trigger the detection mechanism. In this paper, we lay out the framework and experimental setup to explore a modified approach in detecting photons below the cut off energy typical in an SNSPD. Leveraging the nanowire's change in kinetic inductance from photon absorption, the resulting voltage pulse is measured through a coupled quantum-noise-limited parametric amplifier. We consider nanowires with widths less than the vortex entry limit of w < 4.4\xi, where \xi is the coherence length, limiting the sources of noise.
AB - Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (SNSPDs) have demonstrated timing and efficiency properties that have placed them at the frontier in single photon sensing applications (e.g. photon counting, deep space optical communications, quantum communication, and quantum encryption). Properties such as timing jitter as low as 3 ps, dark counts under 90 counts per day, high detection efficiency (>90\%), short dead time and sensitivity over a wide range of photon energies (UV to IR). SNSPDs have a cutoff energy where the photon does not have enough energy to trigger the detection mechanism. In this paper, we lay out the framework and experimental setup to explore a modified approach in detecting photons below the cut off energy typical in an SNSPD. Leveraging the nanowire's change in kinetic inductance from photon absorption, the resulting voltage pulse is measured through a coupled quantum-noise-limited parametric amplifier. We consider nanowires with widths less than the vortex entry limit of w < 4.4\xi, where \xi is the coherence length, limiting the sources of noise.
KW - Superconducting photodetectors
KW - infrared detectors
KW - nanosensors
KW - nanowires
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U2 - 10.1109/TASC.2021.3065290
DO - 10.1109/TASC.2021.3065290
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103222621
SN - 1051-8223
VL - 31
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
IS - 5
M1 - 9380904
ER -