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Antipov, A. V., Seleznev, V. A., Vakhtomin, Y. B., Morozov, P. V., Vasilev, D. D., Malevannaya, E. I., et al. (2020). Investigation of WSi and NbN superconducting single-photon detectors in mid-IR range. In IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. (Vol. 781, 012011 (1 to 5)).
Abstract: Spectral characteristics of WSi and NbN superconducting single-photon detectors with different surface resistance and width of nanowire strips have been investigated in the wavelength range of 1.3-2.5 μm. WSi structures with narrower strips demonstrated better performance for detection of single photons in longer wavelength range. The difference in normalized photon count rate for such structures reaches one order of magnitude higher in comparison with structures based on NbN thin films at 2.5 μm.
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Kitaeva, G. K., Kornienko, V. V., Kuznetsov, K. A., Pentin, I. V., Smirnov, K. V., & Vakhtomin, Y. B. (2019). Direct detection of the idler THz radiation generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Opt. Lett., 44(5), 1198–1201.
Abstract: We study parametric down-conversion (PDC) of optical laser radiation in the strongly frequency non-degenerate regime which is promising for the generation of quantum-correlated pairs of extremely different spectral ranges, the optical and the terahertz (THz) ones. The possibility to detect tenuous THz-frequency photon fluxes generated under low-gain spontaneous PDC is demonstrated using a hot electron bolometer. Then experimental dependences of the THz radiation power on the detection angle and on the pump intensity are analyzed.
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Zhang, X., Lita, A. E., Smirnov, K., Liu, H. L., Zhu, D., Verma, V. B., et al. (2020). Strong suppression of the resistivity near the superconducting transition in narrow microbridges in external magnetic fields. Phys. Rev. B, 101(6), 060508 (1 to 6).
Abstract: We have investigated a series of superconducting bridges based on homogeneous amorphous WSi and MoSi films, with bridge widths w ranging from 2 to 1000μm and film thicknesses d∼4−6 and 100 nm. Upon decreasing the bridge widths below the respective Pearl lengths, we observe in all cases distinct changes in the characteristics of the resistive transitions to superconductivity. For each of the films, the resistivity curves R(B,T) separate at a well-defined and field-dependent temperature T∗(B) with decreasing the temperature, resulting in a dramatic suppression of the resistivity and a sharpening of the transitions with decreasing bridge width w. The associated excess conductivity in all the bridges scales as 1/w, which may suggest either the presence of a highly conducting region that is dominating the electric transport, or a change in the vortex dynamics in narrow enough bridges. We argue that this effect can only be observed in materials with sufficiently weak vortex pinning.
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Sidorova, M., Semenov, A., Hübers, H. - W., Kuzmin, A., Doerner, S., Ilin, K., et al. (2018). Timing jitter in photon detection by straight superconducting nanowires: Effect of magnetic field and photon flux. Phys. Rev. B, 98(13), 134504 (1 to 14).
Abstract: We studied the effects of the external magnetic field and photon flux on timing jitter in photon detection by straight superconducting NbN nanowires. At two wavelengths 800 and 1560 nm, statistical distribution in the appearance times of photon counts exhibits Gaussian shape at small times and an exponential tail at large times. The characteristic exponential time is larger for photons with smaller energy and increases with external magnetic field while variations in the Gaussian part of the distribution are less pronounced. Increasing photon flux drives the nanowire from the discrete quantum detection regime to the uniform bolometric regime that averages out fluctuations of the total number of nonequilibrium electrons created by the photon and drastically reduces jitter. The difference between standard deviations of Gaussian parts of distributions for these two regimes provides the measure for the strength of electron-number fluctuations; it increases with the photon energy. We show that the two-dimensional hot-spot detection model explains qualitatively the effect of magnetic field.
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Kuzin, A., Elmanov, I., Kovalyuk, V., An, P., & Goltsman, G. (2020). Silicon nitride focusing grating coupler for input and output light of NV-centers. In Proc. 32-nd EMSS (pp. 349–353).
Abstract: Here we presented the numerical results for the calculation of focusing grating coupler efficiency in the visible wavelength range. Using the finite element method, the optimal geometric parameters, including filling factor and grating period for a central wavelength of 637 nm, were found. Obtained results allow to input/output single-photon radiation from NV-centers, and can be used for research and development of a scalable on-chip quantum optical computing.
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