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

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) with near-unity system
efficiency is a key enabling, but still elusive, technology for numerous quantum fundamental …

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

High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs), which have
numerous applications in quantum information systems, function by using the optical cavity …

Thermodynamic fluctuations in superconductors have been studied for many decades
because they influence basically all properties of a superconductor, eg conductivity …

A multispectral superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) that is sensitive
to different incident photon wavelength bands, is proposed. The SNSPD consists of a …

A simple method for preparing superconducting NbN thin films on flexible dielectric
substrates with controllable thickness was developed. The structure and surface …

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) play a prominent role in
sparse photon detection, but they tend to exhibit latching or saturation issues when …

In a magnetic field, vortices significantly contribute to the dark counts of single-photon
detectors made of superconducting wires, and they are also limiting the critical current of …

The manipulation and control of vortex states in superconducting systems are of great
interest in view of possible applications, for which mesoscopic materials are good …