Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15 (10): 100301, Published Online: Jul. 19, 2018  

Ultralow-noise single-photon detection based on precise temperature controlled photomultiplier with enhanced electromagnetic shielding Download: 1007次

Author Affiliations
1 Key Lab of Education Ministry on Luminescence and Optical Information Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
2 The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, 275 Hutchison Road, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
Abstract
We demonstrate an ultralow-noise single-photon detection system based on a sensitive photomultiplier tube (PMT) with precise temperature control, which can capture fast single photons with intervals around 10 ns. By improvement of the electromagnetic shielding and introduction of the self-differencing method, the dark counts (DCs) are cut down to 1%. We further develop an ultra-stable PMT cooling subsystem and observe that the DC goes down by a factor of 3.9 each time the temperature drops 10°C. At 20°C it is reduced 400 times with respect to the room temperature (25°C), that is, it becomes only 2 counts per second, which is on par with the superconducting nanowire detectors. Meanwhile, despite a 50% loss, the detection efficiency is still 13%. Our detector is available for ultra-precise single-photon detection in environments with strong electromagnetic disturbances.

Mingyu Wang, Zhengyong Li, Yanhui Cai, Yi Zhang, Xiangkong Zhan, Haiyang Wang, Chongqing Wu. Ultralow-noise single-photon detection based on precise temperature controlled photomultiplier with enhanced electromagnetic shielding[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2017, 15(10): 100301.

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