Photon-number-resolving superconducting nanowire detectors

Francesco Mattioli; Zili Zhou; Alessandro Gaggero; Rosalinda Gaudio; Saeedeh Jahanmirinejad; Döndü Sahin; Francesco Marsili; Roberto Leoni; Andrea Fiore

doi:10.1088/0953-2048/28/10/104001

Photon-number-resolving superconducting nanowire detectors

Francesco Mattioli, Zili Zhou, Alessandro Gaggero, Rosalinda Gaudio, Saeedeh Jahanmirinejad, Döndü Sahin, Francesco Marsili, Roberto Leoni, Andrea Fiore

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In recent years, photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors have attracted great interest, mainly because they can play a key role in diverse application fields. A PNR detector with a large dynamic range would represent an ideal photon detector, bringing the linear response of conventional analogue detectors down to the single-photon level. Several technologies, such as InGaAs single photon avalanche detectors (SPADs), arrays of silicon photomultipliers, InGaAs SPADs with self-differencing circuits and transition edge sensors have shown photon number resolving capability. Superconducting nanowires provide free-running single-photon sensitivity from visible to mid-infrared frequencies, low dark counts, excellent timing resolution (

Original language	English
Article number	104001
Journal	Superconductor Science and Technology
Volume	28
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-2048/28/10/104001
Publication status	Published - 24 Aug 2015

Keywords

multiphoton processes
quantum detectors
superconducting nanowires photon detectors

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Photon-number-resolving superconducting nanowire detectors. / Mattioli, Francesco; Zhou, Zili; Gaggero, Alessandro; Gaudio, Rosalinda; Jahanmirinejad, Saeedeh; Sahin, Döndü; Marsili, Francesco; Leoni, Roberto; Fiore, Andrea.

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