Lidar has already achieved long-distance and high-accuracy detection due to the improved
sensitivity and timing accuracy of single-photon detectors (SPDs). However, single-photon …

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

The Origins Space Telescope mission concept includes an exoplanet transit spectrometer
that requires detector arrays with ultrahigh pixel-to-pixel stability. Superconducting nanowire …

We present a 1024-element near-infrared imaging array of superconducting nanowire single
photon detectors (SNSPDs) using a 32× 32 row-column multiplexing architecture. The array …

Photonic technologies offer numerous functionalities that can be used to realize
astrophotonic instruments. The most spectacular example to date is the ESO Gravity …

The scaling barriers currently faced by both quantum networking and quantum computing
technologies ultimately amount to the same core challenge of distributing high-quality …

Increasing the count rate (CR) is one of the key issues in the development of
superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) for different applications. This …

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 …

Single-photon detectors based on superconducting thin films have become a viable class of
technologies for widespread usage in quantum optics. In this tutorial paper we introduce the …

Coincidence detection of single photons is crucial in numerous quantum technologies and
usually requires multiple time-resolved single-photon detectors. However, the electronic …