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Free space-coupled superconducting nanowire single photon detectors for infrared optical communications
Francesco Bellei, Alyssa P. Cartwright, Adam N. McCaughan +4
This paper describes the construction of a cryostat and an optical system with a free-space coupling efficiency of 56.5% +/- 3.4% to a superconducting nanowire single-photon detect…
On-Chip Detection of Entangled Photons by Scalable Integration of Single-Photon Detectors
Faraz Najafi, Jacob Mower, Nicholas Harris +8
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have emerged as a scalable platform for complex quantum technologies using photonic and atomic systems. A central goal has been to integrate pho…
Improvement of infrared single-photon detectors absorptance by integrated plasmonic structures
M. Csete, A. Sipos, A. Szalai +2
The absorptance of p-polarized light in superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) was improved by integrating (1) ~quarter-wavelength nano-optical cavity closed by…
Optimized polar-azimuthal orientations for polarized light illumination of different Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector designs
Maria Csete, Aron Sipos, Faraz Najafi +1
The optimal orientations are determined for polarized substrate side illumination of three superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) designs: (1) periodic niobium-nit…
Numerical method to optimize the Polar-Azimuthal Orientation of Infrared Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors
Mária Csete, Áron Sipos, Faraz Najafi +2
A novel finite-element method for calculating the illumination-dependence of absorption in three-dimensional nanostructures is presented based on the RF module of the COMSOL softwa…