English
Related papers

Related papers: Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector on…

200 papers

Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors (SNSPDs) are key building blocks for photonic quantum technologies due to their ability to detect single photons with ultra-high efficiency, low dark counts and fast temporal resolution.…

Single-photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires (SSPDs or SNSPDs) have rapidly emerged as a highly promising photon-counting technology for infrared wavelengths. These devices offer high efficiency, low dark counts and excellent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Chandra M. Natarajan , Michael G. Tanner , Robert H. Hadfield

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) offer high-quantum-efficiency and low-dark-count-rate single photon detection. In a growing number of cases, large magnetic fields are being incorporated into quantum microscopes,…

We present the characteristics of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) fabricated from amorphous Mo0.75Ge0.25 thin-films. Fabricated devices show a saturation of the internal detection efficiency at temperatures below 1…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-18 V. B. Verma , A. E. Lita , M. R. Vissers , F. Marsili , D. P. Pappas , R. P. Mirin , S. W. Nam

Generally, a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) is composed of wires with a typical width of ~100 nm. Recent studies have found that superconducting strips with a micrometer-scale width can also detect single photons.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-28 Guang-Zhao Xu , Wei-Jun Zhang , Li-Xing You , Jia-Min Xiong , Xing-Qu Sun , Hao Huang , Xin Ou , Yi-Ming Pan , Chao-Lin Lv , Hao Li , Zhen Wang , Xiao-Ming Xie

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) perform single-photon counting with exceptional sensitivity and time resolution at near-infrared wavelengths. State-of-the-art SNSPDs, based on 100 nm-wide, 4 to 5 nm thick NbN…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Marsili , F. Najafi , E. Dauler , F. Bellei , X. Hu , M. C. Csete , R. Molnar , K. K. Berggren

We present the performances of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) in an ultralow-temperature region from 16 mK to 4 K. The system detection efficiency of the SNSPD showed saturation in the bias-current and temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Taro Yamashita , Shigehito Miki , Wei Qiu , Mikio Fujiwara , Masahide Sasaki , Zhen Wang

The superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) is a quantum-limit superconducting optical detector based on the Cooper-pair breaking effect by a single photon, which exhibits a higher detection efficiency, lower dark count…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-02 Lixing You

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) are a leading detector technology for time-resolved single-photon counting from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared regime. The recent advancement in single-photon sensitivity in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-09 Christina Wang , Cristián Peña , Si Xie , Emanuel Knehr , Boris Korzh , Jamie Luskin , Sahil Patel , Matthew Shaw , Valentina Vega

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) with near-unity system efficiency is a key enabling, but still elusive technology for numerous quantum fundamental theory verifications and quantum information applications. The key…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-30 Peng Hu , Hao Li , Lixing You , Heqing Wang , You Xiao , Jia Huang , Xiaoyan Yang , Weijun Zhang , Zhen Wang , Xiaoming Xie

We report the fabrication of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SSPD or SNSPD) with an ultralow dark count rate. By introducing optical band-pass filters at the input of the SSPD and cooling the filters at 3 K, the dark…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-08-27 H. Shibata , K. Shimizu , H. Takesue , Y. Tokura

Dark count rate is one of the key parameters limiting the performance of the superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD). We have designed a multi-layer film bandpass filter that can be integrated onto the SNSPD to suppress the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-06-27 Xiaoyan Yang , Hao Li , Weijun Zhang , Lixing You , Lu Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Zhen Wang , Wei Peng , Xiaoming Xie , Mianheng Jiang

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPD or SSPD) are highly promising devices in the growing field of quantum information and communications technology. We have developed a practical SSPD system with our superconducting thin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Zhen Wang , Shigehito Miki , Mikio Fujiwara

For the last 50 years, superconducting detectors have offered exceptional sensitivity and speed for detecting faint electromagnetic signals in a wide range of applications. These detectors operate at very low temperatures and generate a…

For photon-counting applications at ultraviolet wavelengths, there are currently no detectors that combine high efficiency (> 50%), sub-nanosecond timing resolution, and sub-Hz dark count rates. Superconducting nanowire single-photon…

We report on the design, fabrication and measurement of travelling-wave superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) integrated with polycrystalline diamond photonic circuits. We analyze their performance both in the…

We present a novel design of a superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD) fabricated on a core of a single mode optical fiber. The proposed design allows high overlap between the fiber light mode and the detector, and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 Gil Bachar , Ilya Baskin , Oleg Shtempluck , Eyal Buks

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…

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) are the highest-performing technology for time-resolved single-photon counting from the UV to the near-infrared. The recent discovery of single-photon sensitivity in micrometer-scale…

The detection of individual quanta of light is important for quantum computation, fluorescence lifetime imaging, single-molecule detection, remote sensing, correlation spectroscopy, and more. Thanks to their broadband operation, high…

‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›