Friday, November 9, 2012

1211.1771 (Gil Bachar et al.)

Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors On-Fiber    [PDF]

Gil Bachar, Ilya Baskin, Oleg Shtempluck, Eyal Buks
We present a novel design of a superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD) fabricated on a core of a single mode optical fiber. The proposed design allows high overlap between the fiber light mode and the detector, and consequently, our fabricated devices can remain small in dimension and maintain speed of operation, without scarifying the detection efficiency. The on-fiber fabrication method is detailed, together with experimental results. The proposed method can be exploited in the future for the fabrication of other fiber coupled devices.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1771

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