SNSPDs have been widely used in various applications requiring single photon detection thanks to their attractive performances. Since SNSPDs are thin films of serval nanometers in thickness, they are ...

Quantum fan: the new single-photon detector comprises 32 superconducting nanowires. (Courtesy: Ryan Lannom, JPL-Caltech/NASA) A new photon detector called PEACOQ can register the arrival times of ...

The superconducting nanowire single-photon detector, or SNSPD, is renowned for its application in photon based quantum technologies and has been used in fields such as quantum information processing ...

The technology of integrated photonic quantum chips has successfully enabled the on-chip preparation, manipulation, and detection of photonic quantum states, thereby significantly accelerating the ...