TY - JOUR AU - Smirnov, K. AU - Vachtomin, Y. AU - Divochiy, A. AU - Antipov, A. AU - Goltsman, G. PY - 2015 DA - 2015// TI - The limitation of noise equivalent power by background radiation for infrared superconducting single photon detectors coupled to standard single mode optical fibers T2 - Rus. J. Radio Electron. JO - Rus. J. Radio Electron. IS - 5 KW - NbN SSPD AB - We investigated the minimum level of the dark count rates and noise equivalent power of superconducting single photon detectors coupled to standard single mode optical fibers. We found that background radiation limits the minimum level of the dark count rates. We also proposed the effective method for reducing background radiation out of the required spectral range of the detector. Measured noise equivalent power of detector reaches 8.9×10-19 W×Hz1/2 at a wavelength of 1.55 μm and quantum efficiency 35%. UR - http://jre.cplire.ru/jre/may15/3/abstract_e.html N1 - 14 pages ID - Smirnov_etal2015 ER -