Waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

S Ferrari, C Schuck, W Pernice - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
Integration of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with nanophotonic
waveguides is a key technological step that enables a broad range of classical and quantum …

Detector tomography on IBM quantum computers and mitigation of an imperfect measurement

Y Chen, M Farahzad, S Yoo, TC Wei - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We use quantum detector tomography to characterize the qubit readout in terms of
measurement positive operator-valued measures (POVMs) on IBM quantum computers IBM …

Single-mode parametric-down-conversion states with 50 photons as a source for mesoscopic quantum optics

G Harder, TJ Bartley, AE Lita, SW Nam, T Gerrits… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We generate pulsed, two-mode squeezed states in a single spatiotemporal mode with mean
photon numbers up to 20. We directly measure photon-number correlations between the two …

Detection mechanism of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

A Engel, JJ Renema, K Il'in… - … Science and Technology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we intend to give a comprehensive description of the current understanding of
the detection mechanism in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. We will …

Cavity-enhanced and ultrafast superconducting single-photon detectors

A Vetter, S Ferrari, P Rath, R Alaee, O Kahl… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast single-photon detectors with high efficiency are of utmost importance for many
applications in the context of integrated quantum photonic circuits. Detectors based on …

True photocounting statistics of multiple on-off detectors

J Sperling, W Vogel, GS Agarwal - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2012 - APS
We derive a closed photocounting formula, including noise counts and a finite quantum
efficiency, for photon-number-resolving detectors based on on-off detectors. It applies to …

Improved heralded single-photon source with a photon-number-resolving superconducting nanowire detector

SI Davis, A Mueller, R Valivarthi, N Lauk, L Narvaez… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Deterministic generation of single photons is essential for many quantum information
technologies. A bulk optical nonlinearity emitting a photon pair, where the measurement of …

Quantum simulation of thermodynamics in an integrated quantum photonic processor

FHB Somhorst, R van der Meer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
One of the core questions of quantum physics is how to reconcile the unitary evolution of
quantum states, which is information-preserving and time-reversible, with evolution following …

Quantum detector tomography of a time-multiplexed superconducting nanowire single-photon detector at telecom wavelengths

CM Natarajan, L Zhang, H Coldenstrodt-Ronge… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are widely used in telecom
wavelength optical quantum information science applications. Quantum detector …

Mapping coherence in measurement via full quantum tomography of a hybrid optical detector

L Zhang, HB Coldenstrodt-Ronge, A Datta… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Quantum states and measurements exhibit wave-like (continuous) or particle-like (discrete)
character. Hybrid discrete–continuous photonic systems are key to investigating …