TY - JOUR
T1 - Photon-number-resolving superconducting nanowire detectors
AU - Mattioli, F.
AU - Zhou, Z.
AU - Gaggero, A.
AU - Gaudio, R.
AU - Jahanmirinejad, S.
AU - Sahin, D.
AU - Marsili, F.
AU - Leoni, R.
AU - Fiore, A.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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 (
AB - 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 (
U2 - 10.1088/0953-2048/28/10/104001
DO - 10.1088/0953-2048/28/10/104001
M3 - Article
SN - 0953-2048
VL - 28
SP - 104001-1/15
JO - Superconductor Science and Technology
JF - Superconductor Science and Technology
IS - 10
ER -