Single‐photon detectors and nanoscale superconducting devices are two major candidates
for realizing quantum technologies. Superconducting‐nanowire single‐photon detectors …

Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors are becoming a dominant technology in
quantum optics and quantum communication, primarily because of their low timing jitter and …

Single-photon counters are single-pixel binary devices that click upon the absorption of a
photon but obscure its spectral information, whereas resolving the color of detected photons …

We demonstrate waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
on thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO 3, LN). Using a 250 μm-long NbN superconducting …

Superconducting nanowires used in single-photon detectors have been realized on
amorphous or poly-crystalline films. Here, we report the first use of single-crystalline NbN …

High-quality ultrathin films of niobium nitride (NbN) are developed by the plasma-enhanced
atomic layer deposition (PEALD) technique. Superconducting nanowire single-photon …

Superconducting nanowire-based devices are being hailed as promising single-photon
detectors that exhibit excellent combined properties. In particular, their unrivalled time …

Single-photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires (SNSPDs) are promising
technologies with good comprehensive performance, especially their excellent temporal …

Fast and high efficiency single-photon detectors have important applications in the fields of
life science and quantum information. We report, herein, a serially connected two …

Aluminum nitride (AlN) is an emerging material for integrated quantum photonics with its
excellent linear and nonlinear optical properties. In particular, its second-order nonlinear …