EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2015)

Energy Relaxtation and Hot Spot Formation in Superconducting Single Photon Detectors SSPDS

  • Florya I.N.,
  • Korneeva Yu. P.,
  • Sidorova M.V.,
  • Golikov A.D.,
  • Gaiduchenko I.A.,
  • Fedorov G.E.,
  • Korneev A.A.,
  • Voronov B.M.,
  • Goltsman G.N.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510310004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 103
p. 10004

Abstract

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We have studied the mechanism of energy relaxation and resistive state formation after absorption of a single photon for different wavelengths and materials of single photon detectors. Our results are in good agreement with the hot spot model.

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