Large-Area Arrays of WSi Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

Francesco Marsili,Matthew D. Shaw,Giovanni Resta,Jeffrey A. Stern,A. D. Beyer,Prasana Ravindran,Su-Wei Chang,Joseph C. Bardin,Damon Russell,Jonathan W. Gin,Ferze D. Patawaran,Varun B. Verma,Richard P. Mirin,Sae Woo Nam,William H. Farr

Large-Area Arrays of WSi Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

2015

Francesco Marsili
Matthew D. Shaw
Giovanni Resta
Jeffrey A. Stern
A. D. Beyer
Prasana Ravindran
Su-Wei Chang
Joseph C. Bardin
Damon Russell
Jonathan W. Gin
Ferze D. Patawaran
Varun B. Verma
Richard P. Mirin
Sae Woo Nam
William H. Farr

We report on a 160 μm × 160 μm free-space-coupled array of WSi superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) developed for the ground receiver of a deep-space optical communication system.

Keywords:

Detector
Optical communication
Superconductivity
Nanowire
Free-space optical communication
Photon
Optoelectronics
Materials science
photon detector
three dimensional imaging
Photon counting

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