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 …

Superconducting nanowires for single‐photon detection: progress, challenges, and opportunities

I Holzman, Y Ivry - Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐photon detectors and nanoscale superconducting devices are two major candidates
for realizing quantum technologies. Superconducting‐nanowire single‐photon detectors …

[HTML][HTML] Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: A perspective on evolution, state-of-the-art, future developments, and applications

I Esmaeil Zadeh, J Chang, JWN Los, S Gyger… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Two decades after their demonstration, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
(SNSPDs) have become indispensable tools for quantum photonics as well as for many …

Detecting single infrared photons with 93% system efficiency

F Marsili, VB Verma, JA Stern, S Harrington, AE Lita… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Single-photon detectors at near-infrared wavelengths with high system detection efficiency
(> 90%), low dark count rate (< 1 cps), low timing jitter (< 100 ps) and short reset time (< 100 …

On-chip time resolved detection of quantum dot emission using integrated superconducting single photon detectors

G Reithmaier, S Lichtmannecker, T Reichert, P Hasch… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
We report the routing of quantum light emitted by self-assembled InGaAs quantum dots
(QDs) into the optical modes of a GaAs ridge waveguide and its efficient detection on-chip …

On-chip generation, routing, and detection of resonance fluorescence

G Reithmaier, M Kaniber, F Flassig… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Quantum optical circuits can be used to generate, manipulate, and exploit nonclassical
states of light to push semiconductor based photonic information technologies to the …

Enhanced telecom wavelength single-photon detection with NbTiN superconducting nanowires on oxidized silicon

MG Tanner, CM Natarajan, VK Pottapenjara… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have emerged as a highly
promising infrared single-photon detector technology. Next-generation devices are being …

Multichannel SNSPD system with high detection efficiency at telecommunication wavelength

S Miki, T Yamashita, M Fujiwara, M Sasaki, Z Wang - Optics letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We developed a four-channel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector system
based on a Gifford–McMahon cryocooler. All channels showed a system detection efficiency …

Fractal superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with reduced polarization sensitivity

X Chi, K Zou, C Gu, J Zichi, Y Cheng, N Hu, X Lan… - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) based on a
fractal design of the nanowires to reduce the polarization sensitivity of detection efficiency …

Fractal superconducting nanowire avalanche photodetector at 1550 nm with 60% system detection efficiency and 1.05 polarization sensitivity

Y Meng, K Zou, N Hu, X Lan, L Xu, J Zichi… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Superconducting nanowire (nanostrip) single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have shown
unprecedented detection efficiency and timing properties, but simultaneously achieving …