@Article{Marsili_etal2013,
author="Marsili, F.
and Verma, V. B.
and Stern, J. A.
and Harrington, S.
and Lita, A. E.
and Gerrits, T.
and Vayshenker, I.
and Baek, B.
and Shaw, M. D.
and Mirin, R. P.
and Nam, S. W.",
title="Detecting single infrared photons with 93{\%} system efficiency",
journal="Nat. Photon.",
year="2013",
volume="7",
number="3",
pages="210--214",
optkeywords="SSPD quantum efficiency",
abstract="Single-photon detectors1 at near-infrared wavelengths with high system detection efficiency (>90{\%}), low dark count rate (<1 c.p.s.), low timing jitter (<100 ps) and short reset time (<100 ns) would enable landmark experiments in a variety of fields2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Although some of the existing approaches to single-photon detection fulfil one or two of the above specifications1, to date, no detector has met all of the specifications simultaneously. Here, we report on a fibre-coupled single-photon detection system that uses superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors7 and closely approaches the ideal performance of single-photon detectors. Our detector system has a system detection efficiency (including optical coupling losses) greater than 90{\%} in the wavelength range $\lambda$ = 1,520--1,610 nm, with a device dark count rate (measured with the device shielded from any background radiation) of {\textasciitilde}1 c.p.s., timing jitter of {\textasciitilde}150 ps full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) and reset time of 40 ns.",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=1056), last updated on Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:50:27 -0500",
doi="10.1038/nphoton.2013.13",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.13"
}