A Robust Optical Coupler for Alignment of Superconducting Nanowire Detector Array

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2015.ff2a.6
• Publication Date: 2015-05-07T11:20:37Z
• Authors: R. H. Shepard; Andrew Guzman; Matthew Grein; Eric Dauler; Danna Rosenberg; Theodore Gudmundsen; Ryan Murphy
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

We present an athermalized design and performance analysis of a robust imaging system used to couple light from an input fiber to a superconducting nanowire single photon detector.