Superconducting Single Photon Detecting Systems (SSPD)

System specifications
- Timing jitter: ≤ 45 ps
- Dark counts rate: ≤ 10 cps
- Counting rate: ≥ 100 MHz (Dead time ≤ 10 ns)
- No afterpulsing
- Fiber coupling (no misalignment)
- Operation in a continuous mode
General parameters
- Number of channels: 1-4
- Fiber: SMF 28e
- Original output voltage: ≤ 150 mV
- Possible types of output voltage: TTL, ECL, LVDS
- Electrical connection: SMA
- Driver interface: USB, LabVIEW
Applications:
• Photonic quantum computing
• Photon correlation measurements
• Quantum cryptography
• Time-resolved fluorescence measurements
• Picosecond Integrated Circuits analysis (PICA)
• Single quantum dot/molecule fluorescence spectroscopy