Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with integrated impedance-matching taper
Conventional readout of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) sets an upper bound on the output voltage to be the product of the bias current and the load impedance, I B × Z load , where Z load is limited to 50 Ω in standard r.f. electronics. Here, we break this limit by interfac...
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| author | Zhu, Di Colangelo, Marco Korzh, Boris A. Zhao, Qingyuan Frasca, Simone Dane, Andrew Edward Velasco, Angel E. Beyer, Andrew D. Allmaras, Jason P. Ramirez, Edward Strickland, William J. Santavicca, Daniel F. Shaw, Matthew D. Berggren, Karl K. |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Zhu, Di Colangelo, Marco Korzh, Boris A. Zhao, Qingyuan Frasca, Simone Dane, Andrew Edward Velasco, Angel E. Beyer, Andrew D. Allmaras, Jason P. Ramirez, Edward Strickland, William J. Santavicca, Daniel F. Shaw, Matthew D. Berggren, Karl K. |
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| description | Conventional readout of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) sets an upper bound on the output voltage to be the product of the bias current and the load impedance, I B × Z load , where Z load is limited to 50 Ω in standard r.f. electronics. Here, we break this limit by interfacing the 50 Ω load and the SNSPD using an integrated superconducting transmission line taper. The taper is a transformer that effectively loads the SNSPD with high impedance without latching. At the expense of reduced maximum counting rate, it increases the amplitude of the detector output while preserving the fast rising edge. Using a taper with a starting width of 500 nm, we experimentally observed a 3.6× higher pulse amplitude, 3.7× faster slew rate, and 25.1 ps smaller timing jitter. The results match our numerical simulation, which incorporates both the hotspot dynamics in the SNSPD and the distributed nature in the transmission line taper. The taper studied here may become a useful tool to interface high-impedance superconducting nanowire devices to conventional low-impedance circuits. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1213432022-09-30T00:39:02Z Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with integrated impedance-matching taper Zhu, Di Colangelo, Marco Korzh, Boris A. Zhao, Qingyuan Frasca, Simone Dane, Andrew Edward Velasco, Angel E. Beyer, Andrew D. Allmaras, Jason P. Ramirez, Edward Strickland, William J. Santavicca, Daniel F. Shaw, Matthew D. Berggren, Karl K. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Conventional readout of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) sets an upper bound on the output voltage to be the product of the bias current and the load impedance, I B × Z load , where Z load is limited to 50 Ω in standard r.f. electronics. Here, we break this limit by interfacing the 50 Ω load and the SNSPD using an integrated superconducting transmission line taper. The taper is a transformer that effectively loads the SNSPD with high impedance without latching. At the expense of reduced maximum counting rate, it increases the amplitude of the detector output while preserving the fast rising edge. Using a taper with a starting width of 500 nm, we experimentally observed a 3.6× higher pulse amplitude, 3.7× faster slew rate, and 25.1 ps smaller timing jitter. The results match our numerical simulation, which incorporates both the hotspot dynamics in the SNSPD and the distributed nature in the transmission line taper. The taper studied here may become a useful tool to interface high-impedance superconducting nanowire devices to conventional low-impedance circuits. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Contract ECCS-1509486) 2019-06-18T17:09:47Z 2019-06-18T17:09:47Z 2019-01 2018-11 2019-05-08T17:29:17Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0003-6951 1077-3118 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121343 Zhu, Di et al. "Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with integrated impedance-matching taper." Applied Physics Letters 114 (January 2019): 22901 © 2019 Author(s) en http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5080721 Applied Physics Letters Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Institute of Physics (AIP) arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Zhu, Di Colangelo, Marco Korzh, Boris A. Zhao, Qingyuan Frasca, Simone Dane, Andrew Edward Velasco, Angel E. Beyer, Andrew D. Allmaras, Jason P. Ramirez, Edward Strickland, William J. Santavicca, Daniel F. Shaw, Matthew D. Berggren, Karl K. Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with integrated impedance-matching taper |
| title | Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with integrated impedance-matching taper |
| title_full | Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with integrated impedance-matching taper |
| title_fullStr | Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with integrated impedance-matching taper |
| title_full_unstemmed | Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with integrated impedance-matching taper |
| title_short | Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with integrated impedance-matching taper |
| title_sort | superconducting nanowire single photon detector with integrated impedance matching taper |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121343 |
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