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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 resolution are pivotal in such experiments. By using…

In recent years important progress in micropattern gaseous detectors has been achieved in the use of resistive material to build compact spark-protected devices. The novel idea presented here consists of the polarisation of WELL structures…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-19 Rui De Oliveira , Marcello Maggi , Archana Sharma

We present an ultrafast single sub-micron particle detection method based on a half-bowtie coplanar waveguide. The method is capable of resolving the translocation of these particles at a bandwidth greater than 30MHz. We compare…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Abhishek Bhat , Paul V. Gwozdz , Arjun Seshadri , Marcel Hoeft , Robert H. Blick

Abridged) We model the X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) by considering hot spot emission from a weakly magnetized rotating neutron star (NS) covered by an optically-thick hydrogen atmosphere. We investigate the limitations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Slavko Bogdanov , Jonathan E. Grindlay , George B. Rybicki

In beam test experiments have been carried out for particle identification using digital pulse shape analysis in a 500~$\mu$m thick Neutron Transmutation Doped (nTD) silicon detector with an indigenously developed FPGA based 12 bit…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-09 K. Mahata , A. Shrivastava , J. A. Gore , S. K. Pandit , V. V. Parkar , K. Ramachandran , A. Kumar , S. Gupta , P. Patale

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) are typically used as single-mode-fiber-coupled single-pixel detectors, but large area detectors are increasingly critical for applications ranging from microscopy to free-space…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-26 Claire E. Marvinney , Brian E. Lerner , Alexander A. Puretzky , Aaron J. Miller , Benjamin J. Lawrie

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) can enable photon-number resolution (PNR) based on accurate measurements of the detector's response time to few-photon optical pulses. In this work we investigate the impact of the…

We give an analytic treatment of the time resolution and efficiency of Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) and Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs). We provide closed-form expressions for structures with uniform electric fields and efficient…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-05 Werner Riegler , Philipp Windischhofer

We design and experimentally characterize a balanced homodyne detector optimized for high-repetition-rate (100 MHz) pulsed optical sources. Unlike conventional transimpedance-amplifier architectures, which suffer from nonlinearities and…

This paper presents an investigation of spectral properties of 10 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered by the uGMRT, observed from 2017-2023 using band 3 (300-500 MHz) and 4 (550-750 MHz) of uGMRT. For these MSPs, we have reported a range…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-15 Rahul Sharan , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Sangita Kumari , Jayanta Roy , Ankita Ghosh

We present an alternative approach to the fabrication of highly efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) based on tungsten silicide. Using well-established technologies for the deposition of dielectric mirrors and…

We present superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) based on few-layer NbSe$_2$ fully encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), demonstrating single-photon sensitivity. Our fabrication process preserves the…

A single-photon avalanche detector (SPAD) for high-speed quantum-key generation has successfully been developed. It has the highest photon detection repetition frequency and the lowest dark count rate in the world, as a board-mountable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-28 Seigo Takahashi , Akio Tajima , Akihisa Tomita

Micro-channel plate (MCP)-based photodetectors are capable of picosecond level time resolution and sub-mm level position resolution, which makes them a perfect candidate for the next generation large area photodetectors. The large-area…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-27 Jingbo Wang , Karen Byrum , Marcel Demarteau , Jeffrey Elam , Anil Mane , Edward May , Robert Wagner , Dean Walters , Junqi Xie , Lei Xia , Huyue Zhao

Since their inception, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors have been enabling quantum optical applications and the rise of the photonic quantum industry. The evolution in the detector design and read-out strategies has led to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Lorenzo Stasi , Towsif Taher , Giovanni V. Resta , Hugo Zbinden , Rob Thew , Félix Bussières

We implement a time-of-flight imaging technique utilizing a differential-readout SNSPD to spatially resolve detection events in a fiber-coupled detector platform. We measure the spatial detection profiles for ultra-high numerical aperture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Daniel W. Sorensen , Martin J. Stevens , Lynden K. Shalm , Dileep V. Reddy

In this paper the efficiency of direct charged particle detection with different Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SiPM) sensors has been measured to be close to 100%. Time resolution of about 20 ps has also been confirmed for sensors with an active…

In this work, we introduce a new design concept: the DC-Coupled Resistive Silicon Detectors, based on the LGAD technology. This new approach intends to address a few known features of the first generation of AC-Coupled Resistive Silicon…

The near-unity system detection efficiency (SDE) and excellent timing resolution of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), combined with their other merits, have enabled many classical and quantum photonic applications.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Yun Meng , Kai Zou , Nan Hu , Liang Xu , Xiaojian Lan , Stephan Steinhauer , Samuel Gyger , Val Zwiller , Xiaolong Hu

Modeling of frequency-dependent effects, contributed by the turbulence in the free electron density of interstellar plasma, is required to enable the detection of the expected imprints from the stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background…