Single-photon detectors for optical quantum information applications

RH Hadfield - Nature photonics, 2009 - nature.com
The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in interest in new single-photon detector
technologies. A major cause of this trend has undoubtedly been the push towards optical …

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: physics and applications

CM Natarajan, MG Tanner… - … science and technology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Single-photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires (SSPDs or SNSPDs) have
rapidly emerged as a highly promising photon-counting technology for infrared wavelengths …

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM): Basic concepts and some recent developments

K Suhling, LM Hirvonen, JA Levitt, PH Chung… - Medical photonics, 2015 - Elsevier
Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) is a key fluorescence microscopy technique to map the
environment and interaction of fluorescent probes. It can report on photophysical events that …

Long-range time-of-flight scanning sensor based on high-speed time-correlated single-photon counting

A McCarthy, RJ Collins, NJ Krichel, V Fernández… - Applied …, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We describe a scanning time-of-flight system which uses the time-correlated single-photon
counting technique to produce three-dimensional depth images of distant, noncooperative …

Single-photon generation and detection

GS Buller, RJ Collins - Measurement Science and Technology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection and generation of single photons has seen an upsurge in interest in recent
years as new scientific fields of research, for example quantum information processing, have …

Photon counting LIDAR at 2.3 µm wavelength with superconducting nanowires

GG Taylor, D Morozov, NR Gemmell, K Erotokritou… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we show a proof-of-principle benchtop single-photon light detection and
ranging (LIDAR) depth imager at 2.3 µm, utilizing superconducting nanowire single-photon …

[HTML][HTML] Progress on large-scale superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

S Steinhauer, S Gyger, V Zwiller - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Superconducting nanowires have emerged as a powerful tool for detecting single photons in
the visible and near-infrared range with excellent device performance metrics. We outline …

Photon-emission-correlation spectroscopy as an analytical tool for solid-state quantum defects

REK Fishman, RN Patel, DA Hopper, TY Huang… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
Photon-emission-correlation spectroscopy is an indispensable tool for the study of atoms,
molecules, and, more recently, solid-state quantum defects. In solid-state systems, its most …

Constriction-limited detection efficiency of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

AJ Kerman, EA Dauler, JKW Yang, KM Rosfjord… - Applied Physics …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the source of the large variations in the observed detection efficiencies of
superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors between many nominally identical …

Gigahertz-gated InGaAs/InP single-photon detector with detection efficiency exceeding 55% at 1550 nm

LC Comandar, B Fröhlich, JF Dynes… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We report on a gated single-photon detector based on InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiodes
(APDs) with a single-photon detection efficiency exceeding 55% at 1550nm. Our detector is …