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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…

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High-resolution 3D tracking with sub-nanosecond timing is required for the detection of elementary particles, such as neutrinos. Conventional detectors, which utilize analog silicon photomultipliers, face challenges in balancing spatial…

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In this Letter, we propose a new approach to process high-dimensional quantum information encoded in a photon frequency domain. In contrast to previous approaches based on nonlinear optical processes, no active control of photon energy is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Chaohan Cui , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Saikat Guha , Linran Fan

Despite advances in low-light level detection, single-photon methods such as photon correlation have rarely been used in the context of imaging. The few demonstrations, for example of sub-diffraction limited imaging utilizing quantum…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-14 Yonatan Israel , Ron Tenne , Dan Oron , Yaron Silberberg

Single-photon emitters (SPEs) are central to quantum communication, computing, and metrology, yet their development remains constrained by trade-offs in purity, indistinguishability, and tunability. This review presents a mechanism-based…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-22 Galy Yang , Eric Ashallay , Zhiming Wang , Abolfazl Bayat , Arup Neogi

Photon detectors are an elementary tool to measure electromagnetic waves at the quantum limit and are heavily demanded in the emerging quantum technologies such as communication, sensing, and computing. Of particular interest is a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 S. Kono , K. Koshino , Y. Tabuchi , A. Noguchi , Y. Nakamura

In a recent publication we have proposed a numerical model that describes the detection process of optical photons in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPD). Here, we review this model and present a significant improvement…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Andreas Engel , Julia Lonsky , Xiaofu Zhang , Andreas Schilling

We present systematic measurements of the temperature-dependence of detection efficiencies in TaN and NbN superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. We have observed a clear increase of the cut-off wavelength with decreasing…

Detecting light is fundamental to all optical experiments and applications. At the single photon level, the quantised nature of light requires specialised detectors, which typically saturate for more than one photon, rendering the…

We study a photonic circuit consisting of a quantum dot, QD, coupled to a photon cavity over a wide range of temperature up to room temperature. A key component of such a system is presented here in the form of a Purcell-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Sarbast W. Abdulqadir , Hawri O. Majeed , Nzar Rauf Abdullah

Pixelated High Rate Picosecond Photon Detectors (HRPPDs) by Incom Inc. are promising photosensors for use in Ring Imaging CHerenkov (RICH) detectors, where a high gain, sub-mm position resolution and sub-100ps timing resolution are required…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-14 Yifan Jin , Alexander Kiselev , Sean Stoll

Current count-rate models for single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) typically assume an instantaneous recovery of the quantum efficiency following dead-time, leading to a systematic overestimation of the effective detection efficiency for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Jan Krause , Nino Walenta

Superconducting single photon detectors (SSPD) based on nanopatterned niobium nitride wires offer single photon counting at fast rates, low jitter, and low dark counts, from visible wavelengths well into the infrared. We demonstrate the…

Silicon single-photon detectors (SPDs) are the key devices for detecting single photons in the visible wavelength range. Here we present high detection efficiency silicon SPDs dedicated to the generation of multiphoton entanglement based on…

Single-photon superradiance can emerge when a collection of identical emitters are spatially separated by distances much less than the wavelength of the light they emit, and is characterized by the formation of a superradiant state that…

By properly driving a qubit-resonator system in the strong dispersive regime, we implement an "impedance-matched" $\Lambda$ system in the dressed states, where a resonant single photon deterministically induces a Raman transition and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Kazuki Koshino , Kunihiro Inomata , Zhirong Lin , Yasunobu Nakamura , Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Distinguishing photon-arrival time and position is crucial for advancing quantum technology. However, capturing spatial and temporal information efficiently remains challenging. Here, we present a novel photon-detection technique to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Ozora Iso , Kensuke Miyajima , Ryosuke Shimizu

The realization of a high-efficiency microwave single photon detector is a long-standing problem in the field of microwave quantum optics. Here we propose a quantum non-demolition, high-efficiency photon detector that can readily be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Baptiste Royer , Arne L. Grimsmo , Alexandre Choquette-Poitevin , Alexandre Blais

Image edge detection (ED) requires specialized architectures, reliable supervision, and rigorous evaluation criteria to ensure accurate localization. In this work, we present a framework for high-precision ED that jointly addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Hao Shu

Solid-state single-photon emitters (SPE) are a basis for emerging technologies such as quantum communication and quantum sensing. SPE based on fluorescent point defects are ubiquitous in semiconductors and insulators, and new systems with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Leah R. Narun , Rebecca E. K. Fishman , Henry J. Shulevitz , Raj N. Patel , Lee C. Bassett