Our objective is to design and build a compact system that provides turnkey readiness for commercial and defense use of SNSPDs. Conventional SNSPDs face several limits that lead to tradeoffs between detection efficiency, bandwidth, dark count rate, jitter.
Keywords: superconducting single photon detector, waveguide, fiber-optics, MEMS, cryocooler, adiabatic mode conversion, blackbody spectrum, quantum optics