Single-photon detection in the mid-infrared up to 10 μm wavelength using tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire detectors
Abstract
We developed superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors based on tungsten silicide, which show saturated internal detection efficiency up to a wavelength of 10 μm. These detectors are promising for applications in the mid-infrared requiring sub-nanosecond timing, ultra-high gain stability, low dark counts, and high efficiency, such as chemical sensing, LIDAR, dark matter searches, and exoplanet spectroscopy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.1063/5.0048049
Entities
People
- A. D. Beyer
- A. E. Lita
- A. G. Kozorezov
- Alexander M. Walter
- Boris Korzh
- Di Zhu
- Ekkehart Paditz
- Emma Wollman
- Heli Vora
- Jason Allmaras
- Karl K Berggren
- M. D. Shaw
- Marco Colangelo
- Richard P Mirin
- Ryan M. Briggs
- Sae Woo Nam
- Varun Verma
- Yao Zhai
Organizations
- California Institute of Technology
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- University of Lancaster