Eight-fold signal amplification of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector using a multiple-avalanche architecture
Superconducting nanowire avalanche single-photon detectors (SNAPs) with n parallel nanowires are advantageous over single-nanowire detectors because their output signal amplitude scales linearly with n. However, the SNAP architecture has not been viably demonstrated for n > 4. To increase n for l...
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| author | Zhao, Qingyuan McCaughan, Adam N. Najafi, Faraz Bellei, Francesco De Fazio, Domenico Sunter, Kristen A. Ivry, Yachin Berggren, Karl K. Dane, Andrew Edward |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Zhao, Qingyuan McCaughan, Adam N. Najafi, Faraz Bellei, Francesco De Fazio, Domenico Sunter, Kristen A. Ivry, Yachin Berggren, Karl K. Dane, Andrew Edward |
| author_sort | Zhao, Qingyuan |
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| description | Superconducting nanowire avalanche single-photon detectors (SNAPs) with n parallel nanowires are advantageous over single-nanowire detectors because their output signal amplitude scales linearly with n. However, the SNAP architecture has not been viably demonstrated for n > 4. To increase n for larger signal amplification, we designed a multi-stage, successive-avalanche architecture which used nanowires, connected via choke inductors in a binary-tree layout. We demonstrated an avalanche detector with n = 8 parallel nanowires and achieved eight-fold signal amplification, with a timing jitter of 54 ps. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/997582022-09-30T15:38:21Z Eight-fold signal amplification of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector using a multiple-avalanche architecture Zhao, Qingyuan McCaughan, Adam N. Najafi, Faraz Bellei, Francesco De Fazio, Domenico Sunter, Kristen A. Ivry, Yachin Berggren, Karl K. Dane, Andrew Edward Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Zhao, Qingyuan McCaughan, Adam N. Dane, Andrew Edward Najafi, Faraz Bellei, Francesco De Fazio, Domenico Sunter, Kristen A. Ivry, Yachin Berggren, Karl K. Superconducting nanowire avalanche single-photon detectors (SNAPs) with n parallel nanowires are advantageous over single-nanowire detectors because their output signal amplitude scales linearly with n. However, the SNAP architecture has not been viably demonstrated for n > 4. To increase n for larger signal amplification, we designed a multi-stage, successive-avalanche architecture which used nanowires, connected via choke inductors in a binary-tree layout. We demonstrated an avalanche detector with n = 8 parallel nanowires and achieved eight-fold signal amplification, with a timing jitter of 54 ps. United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Basic Energy Sciences (Award DE-SC0001088) China Scholarship Council (NO.2011619021) China. Nanjing University (Program B for Outstanding PhD Candidate NO.201301B006) 2015-11-09T16:02:40Z 2015-11-09T16:02:40Z 2014-09 2014-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1094-4087 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99758 Zhao, Qingyuan, Adam N. McCaughan, Andrew E. Dane, Faraz Najafi, Francesco Bellei, Domenico De Fazio, Kristen A. Sunter, Yachin Ivry, and Karl K. Berggren. “Eight-Fold Signal Amplification of a Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector Using a Multiple-Avalanche Architecture.” Optics Express 22, no. 20 (2014): 24574. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2037-8495 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6929-4391 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-767X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7453-9031 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1438-7109 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8553-6474 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.22.024574 Optics Express Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Optical Society of America arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Zhao, Qingyuan McCaughan, Adam N. Najafi, Faraz Bellei, Francesco De Fazio, Domenico Sunter, Kristen A. Ivry, Yachin Berggren, Karl K. Dane, Andrew Edward Eight-fold signal amplification of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector using a multiple-avalanche architecture |
| title | Eight-fold signal amplification of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector using a multiple-avalanche architecture |
| title_full | Eight-fold signal amplification of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector using a multiple-avalanche architecture |
| title_fullStr | Eight-fold signal amplification of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector using a multiple-avalanche architecture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eight-fold signal amplification of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector using a multiple-avalanche architecture |
| title_short | Eight-fold signal amplification of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector using a multiple-avalanche architecture |
| title_sort | eight fold signal amplification of a superconducting nanowire single photon detector using a multiple avalanche architecture |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99758 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2037-8495 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6929-4391 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-767X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7453-9031 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1438-7109 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8553-6474 |
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