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High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated from MoSi thin-films

Published inOptics express, vol. 23, no. 26, 33792
Publication date2015
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We demonstrate high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) fabricated from MoSi thin-films. We measure a maximum system detection efficiency (SDE) of 87 +- 0.5 % at 1542 nm at a temperature of 0.7 K, with a jitter of 76 ps, maximum count rate approaching 10 MHz, and polarization dependence as low as 3.4 +- 0.7 % The SDE curves show saturation of the internal efficiency similar to WSi-based SNSPDs at temperatures as high as 2.3 K. We show that at similar cryogenic temperatures, MoSi SNSPDs achieve efficiencies comparable to WSi-based SNSPDs with nearly a factor of two reduction in jitter.

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VERMA, V. B. et al. High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated from MoSi thin-films. In: Optics express, 2015, vol. 23, n° 26, p. 33792. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.033792
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