PhotoniX, Volume. 4, Issue 1, 7(2023)

All-fiber device for single-photon detection

Yue Dai1、†, Kunpeng Jia1、†,*, Guanghao Zhu1, Hui Li1, Yue Fei1, Yuqing Guo1, Hang Yuan1, Hao Wang1, Xiaoqing Jia1,2, Qingyuan Zhao1, Lin Kang1,2, Jian Chen1, Shi-ning Zhu1, Peiheng Wu1,2, Zhenda Xie1、**, and Labao Zhang1,2、***
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  • 1School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
  • 2Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei, 230088, China
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    Fiber components form the standard not only in modern telecommunication but also for future quantum information technology. For high-performance single-photon detection, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SPDs) are typically fabricated on a silicon chip and fiber-coupled for easy handling and usage. The fiber-to-chip interface hinders the SPD from being an all-fiber device for full utilization of its excellent performance. Here, we report a scheme of SPD that is directly fabricated on the fiber tip. A bury-and-planar fabrication technique is developed to improve the roughness of the substrate for all-fiber detectors’ performance for single-photon detection with amorphous molybdenum silicide (MoSi) nanowires. The low material selectivity and universal planar process enable fabrication and packaging on a large scale. Such a detector responds to a broad wavelength range from 405 nm to 1550 nm at a dark count rate of 100 cps. The relaxation time of the response pulse is ~ 15 ns, which is comparable to that of on-chip SPDs. Therefore, this device is free from fiber-to-chip coupling and easy packaging for all-fiber quantum information systems.

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    Yue Dai, Kunpeng Jia, Guanghao Zhu, Hui Li, Yue Fei, Yuqing Guo, Hang Yuan, Hao Wang, Xiaoqing Jia, Qingyuan Zhao, Lin Kang, Jian Chen, Shi-ning Zhu, Peiheng Wu, Zhenda Xie, Labao Zhang. All-fiber device for single-photon detection[J]. PhotoniX, 2023, 4(1): 7

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    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Sep. 9, 2022

    Accepted: Feb. 1, 2023

    Published Online: Jul. 10, 2023

    The Author Email: Jia Kunpeng (jiakunpeng@nju.edu.cn), Xie Zhenda (xiezhenda@nju.edu.cn), Zhang Labao (Lzhang@nju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1186/s43074-023-00085-5

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