1.25-Gbit/s photon-counting optical communications using a two-element superconducting nanowire single photon detector

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6372, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dauler, Eric A ^a,b   Robinson, Bryan S ^a   Kerman, Andrew J ^a   Anant, Vikas ^b   Barron, Richard J ^a,c   Berggren, Karl K ^b   Caplan, David O ^a   Carney, John J ^a   Hamilton, Scott A ^a   Rosfjord, Kristine M ^b   Stevens, Mark L ^a   Yang, Joel K W ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical communications; Photon counting; Superconducting nanowire single photon detector

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SIGNAL; PHOTON-COUNTING; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE SINGLE PHOTON DETECTOR;

PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33846230985     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.690627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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11. The reset performance of an SNSPD depends on the nanowire length, its inductivity and the detection efficiency of the SNSPD as a function of current (see reference 8). These measured reset performance of the two SNSPD elements used in this work is consistent with the ∼ 0.5 dB difference in the saturated level of detected photons.
12. The correlated variations in the detected optical power were likely due to mechanical vibrations of the optical probe used to couple light onto the detector. The observed variation in the detected optical power in one detector due to the biasing and counting of the adjacent detector may be due to heating. This effect was only observed at high count rates.