%0 Journal Article
%T Ultrafast time measurements by time-correlated single photon counting coupled with superconducting single photon detector
%A Shcheslavskiy, V.
%A Morozov, P.
%A Divochiy, A.
%A Vakhtomin, Yu
%A Smirnov, K.
%A Becker, W.
%J Rev. Sci. Instrum.
%D 2016
%V 87
%F Shcheslavskiy_etal2016
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%X Time resolution is one of the main characteristics of the single photon detectors besides quantum efficiency and dark count rate. We demonstrate here an ultrafast time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) setup consisting of a newly developed single photon counting board SPC-150NX and a superconducting NbN single photon detector with a sensitive area of 7 × 7 μm. The combination delivers a record instrument response function with a full width at half maximum of 17.8 ps and system quantum efficiency ~5% at wavelength of 1560 nm. A calculation of the root mean square value of the timing jitter for channels with counts more than 1% of the peak value yielded about 7.6 ps. The setup has also good timing stability of the detector–TCSPC board.
%K SSPD
%K SNSPD
%K TCSPC
%K jitter
%R 10.1063/1.4948920
%U https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4948920
%U https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4948920
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