Lidar with superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: Recent advances and developments

Y Guan, H Li, L Xue, R Yin, L Zhang, H Wang… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lidar has already achieved long-distance and high-accuracy detection due to the improved
sensitivity and timing accuracy of single-photon detectors (SPDs). However, single-photon …

[HTML][HTML] Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: A perspective on evolution, state-of-the-art, future developments, and applications

I Esmaeil Zadeh, J Chang, JWN Los, S Gyger… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Two decades after their demonstration, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
(SNSPDs) have become indispensable tools for quantum photonics as well as for many …

Kilopixel array of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

EE Wollman, VB Verma, AE Lita, WH Farr, MD Shaw… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We present a 1024-element near-infrared imaging array of superconducting nanowire single
photon detectors (SNSPDs) using a 32× 32 row-column multiplexing architecture. The array …

Unconventional applications of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors

T Polakovic, W Armstrong, G Karapetrov, ZE Meziani… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors are becoming a dominant technology in
quantum optics and quantum communication, primarily because of their low timing jitter and …

Advances in silicon quantum photonics

JC Adcock, J Bao, Y Chi, X Chen… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum technology is poised to enable a step change in human capability for computing,
communications and sensing. Photons are indispensable as carriers of quantum information …

Resolving photon numbers using a superconducting nanowire with impedance-matching taper

D Zhu, M Colangelo, C Chen, BA Korzh, FNC Wong… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Time-and number-resolved photon detection is crucial for quantum information processing.
Existing photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors usually suffer from limited timing and …

All-fiber device for single-photon detection

Y Dai, K Jia, G Zhu, H Li, Y Fei, Y Guo, H Yuan… - PhotoniX, 2023 - Springer
Fiber components form the standard not only in modern telecommunication but also for
future quantum information technology. For high-performance single-photon detection …

Quantum detector tomography of a superconducting nanostrip photon-number-resolving detector

M Endo, T Sonoyama, M Matsuyama, F Okamoto… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Superconducting nanostrip photon detectors have been used as single-photon detectors,
which can discriminate only photons' presence or absence. It has recently been found that …

Readout-efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon imager with orthogonal time–amplitude multiplexing by hotspot quantization

LD Kong, H Wang, QY Zhao, JW Guo, YH Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Scaling superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors into a large array to obtain
imaging capability is desired for applications in photon-starved conditions, considering the …

The thermally coupled imager: A scalable readout architecture for superconducting nanowire single photon detectors

AN McCaughan, Y Zhai, B Korzh, JP Allmaras… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Although superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are a promising
technology for quantum optics, metrology, and astronomy, they currently lack a readout …