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A Silicon-tipped Fiber-optic Sensing Platform with High Resolution and Fast Response
Published on: January 7, 2019
Fiber-coupled nanowire photon counter at 1550 nm with 24% system detection efficiency
Xiaolong Hu1, Tian Zhong, James E White
1Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. xlhu@mit.edu
Optics Letters
|December 3, 2009
Abstract:
We developed a fiber-coupled superconducting nanowire single-photon detector system in a close-cycled cryocooler and achieved 24% and 22% system detection efficiencies at wavelengths of 1550 and 1315 nm, respectively. The maximum dark count rate was approximately 1000 counts/s.
