Origin of intrinsic dark count in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
arXiv:1103.2844 · doi:10.1063/1.3652908
Abstract
The origin of the decoherence in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors, the so-called dark count, was investigated. We measured the direct-current characteristics and bias-current dependencies of the dark count rate in a wide range of temperatures from 0.5 K to 4 K, and analyzed the results by theoretical models of thermal fluctuations of vortices. Our results indicate that the current-assisted unbinding of vortex-antivortex pairs is the dominant origin of the dark count.
10 pages, 2 figures
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