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 …

Integrated photonics will play a key role in quantum systems as they grow from few-qubit
prototypes to tens of thousands of qubits. The underlying optical quantum technologies can …

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 …

Integrated quantum photonics offers a promising path to scale up quantum optics
experiments by miniaturizing and stabilizing complex laboratory setups. Central elements of …

Superconducting nanowires have emerged as a powerful tool for detecting single photons in
the visible and near-infrared range with excellent device performance metrics. We outline …

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 parametric amplifiers are crucial components in microwave quantum
circuits for enabling quantum-limited signal readout. The best-performing such amplifiers are …

Niobium nitride (NbN) is widely used in the production of superconducting nanowire single-
photon detectors (SNSPDs) due to its high superconducting transition temperature and …

Superconducting niobium nitride (NbN) continues to be investigated decades on, largely in
part to its advantageous superconducting properties and wide use in superconducting …