Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

D Zhu, L Shao, M Yu, R Cheng, B Desiatov… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for
decades—from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of the …

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 …

[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 …

A 100-pixel photon-number-resolving detector unveiling photon statistics

R Cheng, Y Zhou, S Wang, M Shen, T Taher… - Nature Photonics, 2023 - nature.com
Single-photon detectors are ubiquitous in quantum information science and quantum
sensing. They are key enabling technologies for numerous scientific discoveries and …

Broadband solenoidal haloscope for terahertz axion detection

J Liu, K Dona, G Hoshino, S Knirck, N Kurinsky… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We introduce the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) conceptual
design and science program. This haloscope plans to search for bosonic dark matter across …

The security of practical quantum key distribution

V Scarani, H Bechmann-Pasquinucci, NJ Cerf… - Reviews of modern …, 2009 - APS
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is the first quantum information task to reach the level of
mature technology, already fit for commercialization. It aims at the creation of a secret key …

Detection-loophole-free test of quantum nonlocality, and applications

BG Christensen, KT McCusker, JB Altepeter, B Calkins… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We present a source of entangled photons that violates a Bell inequality free of the “fair-
sampling” assumption, by over 7 standard deviations. This violation is the first reported …

Quantum communication

N Gisin, R Thew - Nature photonics, 2007 - nature.com
Quantum communication, and indeed quantum information in general, has changed the way
we think about quantum physics. In 1984 and 1991, the first protocol for quantum …

Advanced time-correlated single photon counting techniques for spectroscopy and imaging in biomedical systems

W Becker, A Bergmann, GL Biscotti… - … Applications of Ultrafast …, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) is based on the detection of single photons
of a periodic light signal, measurement of the detection time of the photons, and the build-up …

Any light particle search II—technical design report

R Bähre, B Döbrich, J Dreyling-Eschweiler… - Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This document constitutes an excerpt of the Technical Design Report for the second stage of
the''Any Light Particle Search''(ALPS-II) at DESY as submitted to the DESY PRC in August …