Saturated Photon Detection Efficiency in NbN Superconducting Photon Detectors

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2015.ff2a.3
• Publication Date: 2015-05-07T11:20:42Z
• Authors: Ryan Murphy; Matthew Grein; Theodore Gudmundsen; Adam McCaughan; Faraz Najafi; Karl K. Berggren; Francesco Marsili; Eric Dauler
• Keywords: Choke; SIGNAL (programming language); Photon Counting

In this work, we demonstrate saturated photon detection efficiency with narrow NbN nanowires and SNAPs to boost the signal-to-noise ratio, a stabilizing choke inductance that is part of optically-active area.