Photonics Research, 2020, 8 (8): 08001260, Published Online: Jul. 8, 2020
Design of a micrometer-long superconducting nanowire perfect absorber for efficient high-speed single-photon detection Download: 907次
Abstract
Despite very efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) reported recently, combining their other performance advantages such as high speed and ultralow timing jitter in a single device still remains challenging. In this work, we present a perfect absorber model and the corresponding detector design based on a micrometer-long NbN nanowire integrated with a 2D photonic crystal cavity of ultrasmall mode volume, which promises simultaneous achievement of near-unity absorption, gigahertz counting rates, and broadband optical response with a 3 dB bandwidth of 71 nm. Compared to previous stand-alone meandered and waveguide-integrated SNSPDs, this perfect absorber design addresses the trade space in size, efficiency, speed, and bandwidth for realizing large on-chip single-photon detector arrays.
Risheng Cheng, Sihao Wang, Chang-Ling Zou, Hong X. Tang. Design of a micrometer-long superconducting nanowire perfect absorber for efficient high-speed single-photon detection[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(8): 08001260.