APL Photonics (May 2021)
Single-photon detection in the mid-infrared up to 10 μm wavelength using tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire detectors
- V. B. Verma,
- B. Korzh,
- A. B. Walter,
- A. E. Lita,
- R. M. Briggs,
- M. Colangelo,
- Y. Zhai,
- E. E. Wollman,
- A. D. Beyer,
- J. P. Allmaras,
- H. Vora,
- D. Zhu,
- E. Schmidt,
- A. G. Kozorezov,
- K. K. Berggren,
- R. P. Mirin,
- S. W. Nam,
- M. D. Shaw
Affiliations
- V. B. Verma
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
- B. Korzh
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California 91109, USA
- A. B. Walter
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California 91109, USA
- A. E. Lita
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
- R. M. Briggs
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California 91109, USA
- M. Colangelo
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Y. Zhai
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
- E. E. Wollman
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California 91109, USA
- A. D. Beyer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California 91109, USA
- J. P. Allmaras
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California 91109, USA
- H. Vora
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
- D. Zhu
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- E. Schmidt
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California 91109, USA
- A. G. Kozorezov
- Department of Physics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
- K. K. Berggren
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- R. P. Mirin
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
- S. W. Nam
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
- M. D. Shaw
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, California 91109, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0048049
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 6,
no. 5
pp. 056101 – 056101-6
Abstract
We developed superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors based on tungsten silicide, which show saturated internal detection efficiency up to a wavelength of 10 μm. These detectors are promising for applications in the mid-infrared requiring sub-nanosecond timing, ultra-high gain stability, low dark counts, and high efficiency, such as chemical sensing, LIDAR, dark matter searches, and exoplanet spectroscopy.
