Advances in space quantum communications

JS Sidhu, SK Joshi, M Gündoğan… - IET Quantum …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Concerted efforts are underway to establish an infrastructure for a global quantum Internet to
realise a spectrum of quantum technologies. This will enable more precise sensors, secure …

Emerging Single‐Photon Detectors Based on Low‐Dimensional Materials

H Wang, J Guo, J Miao, W Luo, Y Gu, R Xie, F Wang… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐photon detectors (SPDs) that can sense individual photons are the most sensitive
instruments for photodetection. Established SPDs such as conventional silicon or III–V …

A photonic integrated quantum secure communication system

TK Paraiso, T Roger, DG Marangon, I De Marco… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Photonic integrated circuits hold great promise in enabling the practical wide-scale
deployment of quantum communications; however, despite impressive experiments of …

Single-photon detection using high-temperature superconductors

I Charaev, DA Bandurin, AT Bollinger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The detection of individual quanta of light is important for quantum communication,
fluorescence lifetime imaging, remote sensing and more. Due to their high detection …

A low-noise CMOS SPAD pixel with 12.1 ps SPTR and 3 ns dead time

F Gramuglia, ML Wu, C Bruschini… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) have become the sensor of choice in many
applications whenever high sensitivity, low noise, and sharp timing performance are …

Single-photon detection for long-range imaging and sensing

RH Hadfield, J Leach, F Fleming, DJ Paul, CH Tan… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Single-photon detectors with picosecond timing resolution have advanced rapidly in the past
decade. This has spurred progress in time-correlated single-photon counting applications …

Direct time-of-flight single-photon imaging

I Gyongy, NAW Dutton… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article provides a tutorial introduction to the direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) signal chain
and typical artifacts introduced due to detector and processing electronic limitations. We …

Quantum nanophotonic and nanoplasmonic sensing: towards quantum optical bioscience laboratories on chip

J Xavier, D Yu, C Jones, E Zossimova, F Vollmer - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Quantum-enhanced sensing and metrology pave the way for promising routes to fulfil the
present day fundamental and technological demands for integrated chips which surpass the …

Finite key effects in satellite quantum key distribution

JS Sidhu, T Brougham, D McArthur, RG Pousa… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
Global quantum communications will enable long-distance secure data transfer, networked
distributed quantum information processing, and other entanglement-enabled technologies …

Sub-10 ps minimum ionizing particle detection with geiger-mode APDs

F Gramuglia, E Ripiccini, CA Fenoglio, ML Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Major advances in silicon pixel detectors, with outstanding timing performance, have
recently attracted significant attention in the community. In this work we present and discuss …