We study the optical pulse response of a superconducting half-wavelength coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonator. We apply a short optical pulse to the center strip of the CPW resonator, where the current distribution shows antinodes or nodes for different resonance modes, and measure the frequency response. We develop a time-dependent variable inductance circuit model with which we can simulate the optical pulse response of the resonator. By fitting this model to experimental data, we extract the temporal kinetic inductance variations, which directly reflect the quasi-particle recombination with time and diffusion in space. We also retrieve the spatial size of the quasi-particle distribution and the quasi-particle diffusion constant. Our study is very useful for the design of photon-counting kinetic inductance detectors, and the method developed in this work provides a useful way to study the quasi-particle dynamics in the superconductor.
@article{arxiv.2108.03423,
title = {Study of quasi-particle dynamics using the optical pulse response of asuperconducting resonator},
author = {J. Hu and Q. He and F. Yu and Y. Chen and M. Dai and H. Guan and P. Ouyang and J. Han and C. Liu and X. Dai and Z. Mai and X. Liu and M. Zhang and L. F. Wei and M. R. Vissers and J. Gao and Y. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03423},
year = {2021}
}
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pleae cite as: Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 022601 (2021)