Optical Bias and Cryogenic Laser Readout of a Multipixel Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thiele, Frederik, Lamberty, Niklas, Hummel, Thomas, Bartley, Tim
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866914723048456192
author Thiele, Frederik
Lamberty, Niklas
Hummel, Thomas
Bartley, Tim
author_facet Thiele, Frederik
Lamberty, Niklas
Hummel, Thomas
Bartley, Tim
contents Cryogenic opto-electronic interconnects are gaining increasing interest as a means to control and read out 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 domain, which allows reliable extraction of amplitude multiplexed photon statistics. Our device has a passive heat dissipation of 2.6mW, maintains the signal rise time of 3ns, and operates in free-running (self-resetting) mode at a repetition rate of 600kHz. This demonstrates the potential of high-bandwidth, low noise, and low heat load opto-electronic interconnects for scalable cryogenic signal processing and transmission.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2403_14276
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Optical Bias and Cryogenic Laser Readout of a Multipixel Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector
Thiele, Frederik
Lamberty, Niklas
Hummel, Thomas
Bartley, Tim
Optics
Applied Physics
Quantum Physics
Cryogenic opto-electronic interconnects are gaining increasing interest as a means to control and read out 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 domain, which allows reliable extraction of amplitude multiplexed photon statistics. Our device has a passive heat dissipation of 2.6mW, maintains the signal rise time of 3ns, and operates in free-running (self-resetting) mode at a repetition rate of 600kHz. This demonstrates the potential of high-bandwidth, low noise, and low heat load opto-electronic interconnects for scalable cryogenic signal processing and transmission.
title Optical Bias and Cryogenic Laser Readout of a Multipixel Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector
topic Optics
Applied Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14276