中国物理B ›› 2015, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (6): 68501-068501.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/24/6/068501

• INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY • 上一篇    下一篇

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

顾敏a, 张蜡宝a, 康琳a, 赵清源a, 郏涛a, 万超a, 徐睿莹a, 杨小忠a, 吴培亨a, 张永b, 夏金松b   

  1. a Research Institute of Superconductor Electronics (RISE), School of Electronic Science and Engineering,Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
    b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information,Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 收稿日期:2015-01-03 修回日期:2015-03-24 出版日期:2015-06-05 发布日期:2015-06-05

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

Gu Min (顾敏)a, Zhang La-Bao (张蜡宝)a, Kang Lin (康琳)a, Zhao Qing-Yuan (赵清源)a, Jia Tao (郏涛)a, Wan Chao (万超)a, Xu Rui-Ying (徐睿莹)a, Yang Xiao-Zhong (杨小忠)a, Wu Pei-Heng (吴培亨)a, Zhang Yong (张永)b, Xia Jin-Song (夏金松)b   

  1. a Research Institute of Superconductor Electronics (RISE), School of Electronic Science and Engineering,Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
    b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information,Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • Received:2015-01-03 Revised:2015-03-24 Online:2015-06-05 Published:2015-06-05
  • Contact: Kang Lin E-mail:kanglin@nju.edu.cn
  • About author:85.25.Pb; 07.57.Kp; 85.60.Gz

摘要:

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.

关键词: single photon, superconductor, nanowire

Abstract:

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.

Key words: single photon, superconductor, nanowire

中图分类号:  (Superconducting infrared, submillimeter and millimeter wave detectors)

  • 85.25.Pb
07.57.Kp (Bolometers; infrared, submillimeter wave, microwave, and radiowave receivers and detectors) 85.60.Gz (Photodetectors (including infrared and CCD detectors))