Unique capabilities and applications of Microchannel Plate (MCP) detectors with Medipix/Timepix readout

AS Tremsin, JV Vallerga - Radiation Measurements, 2020 - Elsevier
The development of highly pixelated fast Medipix/Timepix readout enabled a large number
of novel hybrid detectors, where incoming particles/photons are initially converted into a …

Single photon avalanche diode arrays for quantum imaging and microscopy

F Madonini, F Severini, F Zappa… - Advanced Quantum …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum imaging and microscopy profit from quantum correlations and entanglement to
image objects and samples with resolution and sensitivity that goes far beyond what can be …

Hologram of a single photon

R Chrapkiewicz, M Jachura, K Banaszek… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The spatial structure of single photons,, is becoming an extensively explored resource to
facilitate free-space quantum communication,,, and quantum computation as well as for …

Fast camera spatial characterization of photonic polarization entanglement

C Ianzano, P Svihra, M Flament, A Hardy, G Cui… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Scalable technologies to characterize the performance of quantum devices are crucial to
creating large quantum networks and quantum processing units. Chief among the resources …

Counting of hong-ou-mandel bunched optical photons using a fast pixel camera

A Nomerotski, M Keach, P Stankus, P Svihra… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The uses of a silicon-pixel camera with very good time resolution (∼ nanosecond) for
detecting multiple, bunched optical photons is explored. We present characteristics of the …

Coincidence detection of spatially correlated photon pairs with a monolithic time-resolving detector array

M Unternährer, B Bessire, L Gasparini, D Stoppa… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate coincidence measurements of spatially entangled photons by means of a
multi-pixel based detection array. The sensor, originally developed for positron emission …

Autonomous absolute calibration of an ICCD camera in single-photon detection regime

L Qi, F Just, G Leuchs, MV Chekhova - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Intensified charge coupled device (ICCD) cameras are widely used in vari-ous applications
such as microscopy, astronomy, spectroscopy. Often they are used as single-photon …

Microchannel plate cross-talk mitigation for spatial autocorrelation measurements

M Lipka, M Parniak, W Wasilewski - Applied Physics Letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Microchannel plates (MCP) are the basis for many spatially resolved single-particle
detectors such as ICCD or I-sCMOS cameras employing image intensifiers (II), MCPs with …

Spatial characterization of photonic polarization entanglement using a Tpx3Cam intensified fast-camera

C Ianzano, P Svihra, M Flament, A Hardy, G Cui… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Scalable technologies to characterize the performance of quantum devices are crucial to
creating large quantum networks and quantum processing units. Chief among the resources …

Low photon-count tip-tilt sensor

R Saathof, G Schitter - Adaptive Optics Systems V, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Due to the low photon-count of dark areas of the universe, signal strength of tip-tilt sensor is
low, limiting sky-coverage of reliable tip-tilt measurements. This paper presents the low …