Resolving photon numbers using a superconducting nanowire with impedance-matching taper

D Zhu, M Colangelo, C Chen, BA Korzh, FNC Wong… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Time-and number-resolved photon detection is crucial for quantum information processing.
Existing photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors usually suffer from limited timing and …

Multi-photon detection using a conventional superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

C Cahall, KL Nicolich, NT Islam, GP Lafyatis, AJ Miller… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present the first evidence of multi-photon detection using a conventional
superconducting nanowire single-photon detector, indicating number resolution up to four …

Quantum detector tomography of a superconducting nanostrip photon-number-resolving detector

M Endo, T Sonoyama, M Matsuyama, F Okamoto… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Superconducting nanostrip photon detectors have been used as single-photon detectors,
which can discriminate only photons' presence or absence. It has recently been found that …

Quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays

G Lubin, R Tenne, I Michel Antolovic, E Charbon… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Temporal photon correlation measurement, instrumental to probing the quantum properties
of light, typically requires multiple single photon detectors. Progress in single photon …

Evaluating the performance of photon-number-resolving detectors

M Jönsson, G Björk - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We analyze the performance of photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors and introduce a
figure of merit for the accuracy of such detectors. This figure of merit is the (worst-case) …

Reducing g(2)(0) of a parametric down-conversion source via photon-number resolution with superconducting nanowire detectors

S Sempere-Llagostera, GS Thekkadath, RB Patel… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Multiphoton contributions pose a significant challenge for the realisation of heralded single-
photon sources (HSPS) based on nonlinear processes. In this work, we improve the quality …

[HTML][HTML] Recent Progress in Multiplexed Single-Photon Sources

P Adam, M Mechler - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
We review the progress in multiplexed single-photon sources, including overviews on
heralded single-photon sources and photon-number-resolving detectors, the various …

A high dynamic range optical detector for measuring single photons and bright light

J Tiedau, E Meyer-Scott, T Nitsche, S Barkhofen… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Detecting light is fundamental to all optical experiments and applications. At the single
photon level, the quantized nature of light requires specialised detectors, which typically …

Optically-Sampled Superconducting-Nanostrip Photon-Number Resolving Detector for Non-Classical Quantum State Generation

M Endo, K Takahashi, T Nomura, T Sonoyama… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Photon number-resolving detectors (PNRDs) are the ultimate optical sensors.
Superconducting-nanostrip photon detectors (SNSPDs), traditionally known as ON-OFF …

[HTML][HTML] Simulating the photon statistics of multimode Gaussian states by automatic differentiation of generating functions

E Fitzke, F Niederschuh, T Walther - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Advances in photonics require photon-number resolved simulations of quantum optical
experiments with Gaussian states. We demonstrate a simple and versatile method to …