Demonstration of sub-3 ps temporal resolution with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

被引：411

作者：

Korzh, Boris ^{[1
]}

Zhao, Qing-Yuan ^{[2
]}

Allmaras, Jason P. ^{[1
,3
]}

Frasca, Simone ^{[1
]}

Autry, Travis M. ^{[4
]}

Bersin, Eric A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Beyer, Andrew D. ^{[1
]}

Briggs, Ryan M. ^{[1
]}

Bumble, Bruce ^{[1
]}

Colangelo, Marco ^{[2
]}

Crouch, Garrison M. ^{[1
]}

Dane, Andrew E. ^{[2
]}

Gerrits, Thomas ^{[4
]}

Lita, Adriana E. ^{[4
]}

Marsili, Francesco ^{[1
]}

Moody, Galan ^{[4
]}

Pena, Cristian ^{[5
,6
]}

Ramirez, Edward ^{[1
,7
]}

Rezac, Jake D. ^{[4
]}

Sinclair, Neil ^{[6
]}

Stevens, Martin J. ^{[4
]}

Velasco, Angel E. ^{[1
]}

Verma, Varun B. ^{[4
]}

Wollman, Emma E. ^{[1
]}

Xie, Si ^{[6
]}

Zhu, Di ^{[2
]}

Hale, Paul D. ^{[4
]}

Spiropulu, Maria ^{[6
]}

Silverman, Kevin L. ^{[4
]}

Mirin, Richard P. ^{[4
]}

Nam, Sae Woo ^{[4
]}

Kozorezov, Alexander G. ^{[8
]}

Shaw, Matthew D. ^{[1
]}

Berggren, Karl K. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[2] MIT, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[3] CALTECH, Dept Appl Phys, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[4] Natl Inst Stand & Technol, Boulder, CO USA

[5] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, POB 500, Batavia, IL 60510 USA

[6] CALTECH, Div Phys Math & Astron, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[7] Calif State Univ Los Angeles, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA

[8] Univ Lancaster, Dept Phys, Lancaster, England

来源：

NATURE PHOTONICS | 2020年 / 14卷 / 04期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

QUANTUM TELEPORTATION; JITTER;

D O I：

10.1038/s41566-020-0589-x

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

Knowledge about detection latency provides a guideline to reduce the timing jitter of niobium nitride superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. A timing jitter of 2.6 ps at visible wavelength and 4.3 ps at 1,550 nm is achieved. Improvements in temporal resolution of single-photon detectors enable increased data rates and transmission distances for both classical and quantum optical communication systems, higher spatial resolution in laser ranging, and observation of shorter-lived fluorophores in biomedical imaging. In recent years, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have emerged as the most efficient time-resolving single-photon-counting detectors available in the near-infrared, but understanding of the fundamental limits of timing resolution in these devices has been limited due to a lack of investigations into the timescales involved in the detection process. We introduce an experimental technique to probe the detection latency in SNSPDs and show that the key to achieving low timing jitter is the use of materials with low latency. By using a specialized niobium nitride SNSPD we demonstrate that the system temporal resolution can be as good as 2.6 +/- 0.2 ps for visible wavelengths and 4.3 +/- 0.2 ps at 1,550 nm.

引用

页码：250 / +

页数：14

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