Detecting spatial and temporal information of individual photons is critical to applications in
spectroscopy, communication, biological imaging, astronomical observation and quantum …

We demonstrate that a high kinetic inductance disordered-superconductor nanowire can
realize a circuit element–known as a superinductor–with a characteristic impedance greater …

Time-and number-resolved photon detection is crucial for quantum information processing.
Existing photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors usually suffer from limited timing and …

A broad range of scientific and industrial disciplines require precise optical measurements at
very low light levels. Single-photon detectors combining high efficiency and high time …

We characterize a fluxonium qubit consisting of a Josephson junction inductively shunted
with a NbTiN nanowire superinductance. We explain the measured energy spectrum by …

Detection jitter quantifies variance introduced by the detector in the determination of photon
arrival time. It is a crucial performance parameter for systems using superconducting …

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are the highest-performing
photon-counting technology in the near-infrared region. Because of delay-line effects, large …

Modeling of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors typically requires custom
simulations or finite-element analysis in one or two dimensions. Here, we demonstrate two …

We studied timing jitter in the appearance of photon counts in meandering nanowires with
different fractional amount of bends. Intrinsic timing jitter, which is the probability density …

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) play a pivotal role in infrared
single-photon-detection applications owing to their free-running mode, near-unity detection …