Metrology of single-photon sources and detectors: a review

CJ Chunnilall, IP Degiovanni, S Kück… - Optical …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The generation, measurement, and manipulation of light at the single-and few-photon levels
underpin a rapidly expanding range of applications. These range from applications moving …

Precisely determining photon-number in real time

LA Morais, T Weinhold, MP de Almeida, J Combes… - Quantum, 2024 - quantum-journal.org
Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) are extremely sensitive microcalorimeters
used as photon detectors with unparalleled energy resolution. They have found application …

High intrinsic energy resolution photon number resolving detectors

L Lolli, E Taralli, C Portesi, E Monticone… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are characterized by the intrinsic figures of merit to resolve
both the energy and the statistical distribution of the incident photons. These properties lead …

Development of a fast response titanium-gold bilayer optical TES with an optical fiber self-alignment structure

R Kobayashi, K Hattori, S Inoue… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We developed a Ti/Au bilayer optical superconducting transition edge sensor (TES) laying
on an optical fiber self-aligned structure. The bilayer approach enables us to control the …

Development of titanium-based transition-edge single-photon detector

W Zhang, Y Geng, Z Wang, JQ Zhong… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs), working as single-photon detectors with
high quantum efficiency, low dark count rate, and photon number resolving capability, have …

Fabrication and characterization of fast TESs with small area for single photon counting

C Portesi, E Taralli, L Lolli, M Rajteri… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transition edge sensors (TESs) with high energy resolution (ΔE) at telecommunication
wavelengths have been realized in the last years for application to experiments of quantum …

Evidence for controllable reduction of critical temperature in titanium TESs by baking in air

W Zhang, Z Wang, JQ Zhong, PZ Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on the characteristics of Ti superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) baked
in air at different temperatures from 100° C to 140° C. The critical temperature (TC) of Ti bare …

Aligning superconducting transition-edge sensors by reflected wave intensity measurement

PS Ma, HF Zhang, X Zhou - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
It is critical to accurately align a quantum photon detector such as a superconducting
transition-edge sensor (TES) to an optical fiber in order to optimize its detection efficiency …

[HTML][HTML] 超导转变边沿单光子探测器研究进展

王朝阳, 梁子华, 葛品仕, 王亚哲, 郑其斌 - Applied Physics, 2023 - hanspub.org
单光子探测技术作为推动前沿科技发展的重要支撑技术之一, 在核物理学中微子观测,
绿色荧光蛋白检测, 用于生物成像的超高分辨率显微镜以及量子信息通信等领域中均发挥着重要 …

[PDF][PDF] TES 用超导薄膜制备及特性研究

刘贤文, 徐骁龙, 李劲劲, 王雪深, 钟青, 曹文会… - 计量学报, 2021 - jlxb.china-csm.org
超导转变边沿传感器(TEs) 是光强单位坎[德拉] 量子化所需的单光子探测器,
金属超导薄膜物理特性的研究是TEs 研究的基础. 采用不同电源功率磁控溅射制备高纯Al, Ti …