Current-Crowding-Free Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14171v1
• Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:59:17 GMT
• Title: Current-Crowding-Free Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors
• Authors: Stefan Strohauer, Fabian Wietschorke, Christian Schmid, Stefanie Grotowski, Lucio Zugliani, Björn Jonas, Kai Müller, Jonathan J. Finley,
• Abstract summary: Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) excel in dark matter detection, quantum science and technology, and biomedical imaging. We achieve an internal detection efficiency of 94% for a wavelength of 780 nm with a dark count rate of 7 mHz near the onset of saturating detection efficiency.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Detecting single photons is essential for applications such as dark matter detection, quantum science and technology, and biomedical imaging. Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) excel in this task due to their near-unity detection efficiency, sub-Hz dark count rates, and picosecond timing jitter. However, a local increase of current density (current crowding) in the bends of meander-shaped SNSPDs limits these performance metrics. By locally irradiating the straight segments of SNSPDs with helium ions while leaving the bends unirradiated, we realize current-crowding-free SNSPDs with simultaneously enhanced sensitivity: after irradiation with 800 ions/nm$\unicode{xB2}$, locally irradiated SNSPDs showed a relative saturation plateau width of 37% while fully irradiated SNSPDs reached only 10%. This larger relative plateau width allows operation at lower relative bias currents, thereby reducing the dark count rate while still detecting single photons efficiently. We achieve an internal detection efficiency of 94% for a wavelength of 780 nm with a dark count rate of 7 mHz near the onset of saturating detection efficiency.

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