Optical bias and cryogenic laser readout of a multipixel superconducting nanowire single photon detector

Autor: Frederik Thiele, Niklas Lamberty, Thomas Hummel, Tim Bartley
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: APL Photonics, Vol 9, Iss 7, Pp 076118-076118-8 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2378-0967
DOI: 10.1063/5.0209458
Popis: Cryogenic opto-electronic interconnects are gaining increasing interest as a means to control and readout cryogenic electronic components. The challenge is to achieve sufficient signal integrity with low heat load processing. In this context, we demonstrate the opto-electronic bias and readout of a commercial four-pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector array using a cryogenic photodiode and laser. We show that this approach has a similar system detection efficiency to a conventional bias. Furthermore, multi-pixel detection events are faithfully converted between the optical and electrical domains, which allows reliable extraction of amplitude multiplexed photon statistics. Our device has a latent heat load of 2.6 mW, maintains a signal rise time of 3 ns, and operates in free-running (self-resetting) mode at a repetition rate of 600 kHz. This demonstrates the potential of high-bandwidth, low noise, and low heat load opto-electronic interconnects for scalable cryogenic signal processing and transmission.
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