BACKGROUND Optical spectrometry is one of the most powerful and widely used
characterization tools in scientific and industrial research. Benchtop laboratory spectrometer …

Layered materials are taking centre stage in the ever-increasing research effort to develop
material platforms for quantum technologies. We are at the dawn of the era of layered …

Two decades after their demonstration, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
(SNSPDs) have become indispensable tools for quantum photonics as well as for many …

Single-photon detectors are ubiquitous in quantum information science and quantum
sensing. They are key enabling technologies for numerous scientific discoveries and …

The goal of integrated quantum photonics is to combine components for the generation,
manipulation, and detection of nonclassical light in a phase-stable and efficient platform …

There are significant applications for miniature on‐chip spectrometers in many fields.
However, at present, on‐chip spectrometers have to utilize an integrated strategy to achieve …

A new type of spectrometer that heavily relies on computational technique to recover
spectral information is introduced. They are different from conventional optical spectrometers …

Programmable photonics have the potential to completely transform a range of emerging
applications, including optical computing, optical signal processing, light detecting and …

A compact spectrometer on silicon is proposed and demonstrated with an ultrahigh
resolution. It consists of a thermallytunable ultra-high-Q resonator aiming at ultrahigh …

Multi‐wavelength quantum light sources are extremely desired in establishing
communication links among multiple users for realizing quantum networks. Despite recent …