Frequency-Multiplexed bias and readout of a 16-pixel Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector Array

Steffen Doerner; Artem Kuzmin; Stefan Wuensch; Ilya Charaev; Florian Boes; Thomas Zwick; Michael Siegel

doi:10.1063/1.4993779

Frequency-Multiplexed bias and readout of a 16-pixel Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector Array

Instrumentation and Detectors 2017-08-02 v1 Superconductivity

Authors: Steffen Doerner , Artem Kuzmin , Stefan Wuensch , Ilya Charaev , Florian Boes , Thomas Zwick , Michael Siegel

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Abstract

We demonstrate a 16-pixel array of radio-frequency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with an integrated and scalable frequency-division multiplexing architecture, reducing the required bias and readout lines to a single microwave feed line. The electrical behavior of the photon-sensitive nanowires, embedded in a resonant circuit, as well as the optical performance and timing jitter of the single detectors is discussed. Besides the single pixel measurements we also demonstrate the operation of the 16-pixel array with a temporal, spatial and photon-number resolution.

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superconducting nanowire single-photon detector frequency-division multiplexing detector array bias and readout microwave feed line timing jitter photon-number resolution

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@article{arxiv.1705.05345,
  title  = {Frequency-Multiplexed bias and readout of a 16-pixel Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector Array},
  author = {Steffen Doerner and Artem Kuzmin and Stefan Wuensch and Ilya Charaev and Florian Boes and Thomas Zwick and Michael Siegel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.05345},
  year   = {2017}
}

Frequency-Multiplexed bias and readout of a 16-pixel Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector Array

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