Physical modeling of hot-electron superconducting single-photon detectors

Zhizhong Yan; A. Hamed Majedi; Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

doi:10.1109/TASC.2007.906001

Physical modeling of hot-electron superconducting single-photon detectors

Zhizhong Yan^*, A. Hamed Majedi, Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

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Abstract

In this paper, we treat the incident photons as an electromagnetic plane wave and simulate the wave power coupling to the the hot-electron superconducting single-photon detector to investigate its connection with the experimental system quantum efficiency over different wavelengths. Then we propose a lumped equivalent circuit model based on the kinetic inductance variation induced by the incident photon stream when the serpentine superconducting thin-film nano-wire is dc-biased close to its critical current. The computed output voltage matches experimental results for both amplitude and frequency.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3789-3794
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume	17
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2007.906001
Publication status	Published - Sept 2007

Keywords

Circuit simulation
Electromagnetic (EM) propagation
Photonics
Quantum optics
Superconducting devices
Superconducting optoelectronics
Superconducting radiation detectors

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