Demonstration of a superconducting nanowire single photon detector with an ultrahigh polarization extinction ratio over 400

被引：9

作者：

Xu, Ruiying ^{[1
]}

Li, Yongchao ^{[1
]}

Zheng, Fan ^{[1
]}

Zhu, Guanghao ^{[1
]}

Kang, Lin ^{[1
]}

Zhang, Labao ^{[1
]}

Jia, Xiaoqing ^{[1
]}

Tu, Xuecou ^{[1
]}

Zhao, Qingyuan ^{[1
]}

Jin, Biaobing ^{[1
]}

Xu, Weiwei ^{[1
]}

Chen, Jian ^{[1
]}

Wu, Peiheng ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Nanjing Univ, Res Inst Superconductor Elect, Sch Elect Sci & Engn, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2018年 / 26卷 / 04期

基金：

国家重点研发计划;

关键词：

DESIGN; ARRAY;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.26.003947

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

Polarization sensitive photo-detectors are the key to the implementation of the polarimetric imaging systems, which are proved to have superior performance than their traditional counterparts based on intensity discriminations. In this article, we report the demonstration of a superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD) of which the response is ultra-sensitive to the polarization state of the incident photons. Measurements carried out on a fabricated SNSPD show that a device efficiency of similar to 48% can be achieved at 1550 nm for the case of parallel polarization, which is similar to 420 times larger than that for the case of perpendicular polarization. While the reported polarization ultra-sensitive technique is demonstrated on a single-pixel SNSPD, it is also fully compatible with the multi-pixel SNSPD array platforms that emerged recently. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement

引用

页码：3947 / 3955

页数：9

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